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Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James
Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline
dramatists. The play showcases strong female characters who excel
at rebuking the outlandish courtship of various suitors. Shirley's
comic setting, London's Hyde Park, offers ample opportunity for
witty dialogue and sport - including foot and horse races - across
three love plots. This is the first critical edition of the play,
including a wide-ranging introduction and extensive commentary and
textual notes. Paying special attention to the culture of Caroline
London and its stage, the Revels Plays edition unpicks Shirley's
politics of courtship and consent while also underlining the play's
dynamics of class and power. A detailed performance history traces
productions from 1632, across the Restoration to the present day,
including that of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987. A textual
history of the play's first quarto determines how it was printed
and what relationship Hyde Park has to other texts by Shirley from
the same publishers. -- .
Emerging in several different versions during the author's
lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history
almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe
Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed and nuanced account of
the initial publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass and investigate how their subsequent
transformations through print, illustration, film, song, music
videos, and even stamp-cases and biscuit tins affected the
reception of these childhood favourites. The authors consider
issues related to the orality of the original tale and its impact
on subsequent transmission, the differences between the manuscripts
and printed editions, and the politics of writing and publishing
for children in the 1860s. In addition, they take account of
Carroll's own responses to the books' popularity, including his
writing of major adaptations and a significant body of meta-textual
commentary, and his reactions to the staging of Alice in
Wonderland. Attentive to the child reader, how changing notions of
childhood identity and needs affected shifting narratives of the
story, and the representation of the child's body by various
illustrators, the authors also make a significant contribution to
childhood studies.
Emerging in several different versions during the author's
lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history
almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe
Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed and nuanced account of
the initial publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass and investigate how their subsequent
transformations through print, illustration, film, song, music
videos, and even stamp-cases and biscuit tins affected the
reception of these childhood favourites. The authors consider
issues related to the orality of the original tale and its impact
on subsequent transmission, the differences between the manuscripts
and printed editions, and the politics of writing and publishing
for children in the 1860s. In addition, they take account of
Carroll's own responses to the books' popularity, including his
writing of major adaptations and a significant body of meta-textual
commentary, and his reactions to the staging of Alice in
Wonderland. Attentive to the child reader, how changing notions of
childhood identity and needs affected shifting narratives of the
story, and the representation of the child's body by various
illustrators, the authors also make a significant contribution to
childhood studies.
Collections XVII is the latest volume in the Malone Society's
pioneering series of editions of miscellaneous documents relating
to English theatre and drama before 1642. It is likely to be of
special interest not only to early theatre historians but to those
working on Tudor and Stuart court and civic culture, manuscript
writing, household drama and early modern women's writing, as it
publishes new material in each of these fields. The book includes
items such as Revels Office accounts, a playscript fragment,
entertainments, poems and civic shows. Many of these documents are
previously unpublished, and have been freshly edited and
transcribed; each has an introduction giving details of its date,
authorship and historical importance. The volume will be essential
reading for postgraduates and university teachers in early modern
drama, theatre history and women's writing. -- .
This Element traces the varied and magical history of Christmas
publications for children. The Christmas book market has played an
important role in the growth of children's literature, from
well-loved classics to more ephemeral annuals and gift books.
Starting with the eighteenth century and continuing to recent sales
successes and picturebooks, Christmas Books for Children
investigates continuities and new trends in this hugely significant
part of the children's book market.
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King John (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Introduction by Eugene Giddens; Revised by Eugene Giddens
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King John - today remembered as the villainous opponent of Robin
Hood and the Magna Carta - was for Shakespeare and his audience a
heroic figure who stood up to England's enemies. This Penguin
Shakespeare edition is edited by R. L. Smallwood with an
introduction by Eugene Giddens. 'This England never did, nor never
shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror' Under the rule of King
John, England is forced into war when the French challenge the
legitimacy of John's claim to the throne and determine to install
his nephew Arthur in his place. But political principles,
hypocritically flaunted, are soon forgotten, as the French and
English kings form an alliance based on cynical self-interest. And
as the desire to cling to power dominates England's paranoid and
weak-willed king, his country is threatened with disaster. This
book contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and
Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Richard II, a
chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing
performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and
Mary Arden in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote
about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are
regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced,
including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601),
Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a
collection of 154 sonnets, which are among the most profound and
influential love poetry in English.
This is an invaluable introductory guide for the English student
who needs to decipher a page from a play, or a facsimile
equivalent, from the Shakespearean period. The original quartos and
folios of early play texts are increasingly subject to editorial
and critical scrutiny, and electronic facsimiles are making the
originals accessible to undergraduate and graduate students.
Giddens provides a practical 'how to' guide to the original printed
texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He explains how the
features of the play text came about, what the different elements
mean, and who created them. The book provides that important first
step towards bibliography and critical editing, presenting a
detailed account of how to read these early texts and how they have
been turned into the modern editions we are accustomed to.
This is an invaluable introductory guide for the English student
who needs to decipher a page from a play, or a facsimile
equivalent, from the Shakespearean period. The original quartos and
folios of early play texts are increasingly subject to editorial
and critical scrutiny, and electronic facsimiles are making the
originals accessible to undergraduate and graduate students.
Giddens provides a practical 'how to' guide to the original printed
texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He explains how the
features of the play text came about, what the different elements
mean, and who created them. The book provides that important first
step towards bibliography and critical editing, presenting a
detailed account of how to read these early texts and how they have
been turned into the modern editions we are accustomed to.
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