The Works of Thomas Southerne: Volume II (Hardcover)

Dublin-born Thomas Southerne has long been admired by scholars as one of the most important dramatists of the Restoration, but the lack of a modern edition has prevented his plays from taking their deserved place alongside those of Congreve, Wycherly, and Etherege. This two-volume collection--based on an exhaustive study of the earliest editions--brings together his ten plays and the small surviving body of non-dramatic writing. Volume Two features two of Southerne's best known tragedies, The Fatal Marriage and Oroonoko, based on stories by Aphra Behn, and the variants between the censored and uncensored texts of his political tragedy The Spartan Dame. In addition, the introduction contains the first biography of Southerne based on a comprehensive study of the surviving documentary records, and the editors have incorporated generous notes to clarify the many contemporary allusions and to relate Southerne's work to its sources and models.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford English Texts
Release date:	February 1988
Authors:	Thomas Southerne
Editors:	Robert Jordan • Harold Love
Dimensions:	222 x 144 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	512
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-812798-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Promotions
LSN:	0-19-812798-7
Barcode:	9780198127987

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