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The Works of Richard Edwards - Politics, Poetry and Performance in Sixteenth Century England (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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The Works of Richard Edwards - Politics, Poetry and Performance in Sixteenth Century England (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Series: Revels Plays Companion Library
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The heart of this book is its fully annotated, critical editions of
the surviving work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential
poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. Ros
King's extensive introduction, identifying the holes in the
documentary evidence that might accommodate this important but now
little known writer, rewrites the history of pre-Shakespearean
drama, illustrates new approaches to sixteenth-century prosody and
to the modernisation of dramatic poetry, and re-evaluates the
public role of theatre and poetry during a particularly turbulent
period in English history. The book includes Edwards' play, Damon
and Pythias, his poems (some never before printed and some newly
ascribed), together with a number of original musical settings.
There is also a detailed description of the staging of his
spectacular lost play, Palamon and Arcyte, performed before Queen
Elizabeth I at Oxford, with eye-witness accounts of her reactions.
While it will be essential reading for specialist scholars, it will
also be of much wider interest. The introduction is highly
accessible which makes it an appropriate text-book for students in
a field where few textbooks are available. It will appeal to the
current appetite among the reading public for biography, while the
play, poems and songs are themselves very appealing.
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