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Love's Victory by Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651) is the first romantic
comedy written in English by a woman. The Revels Plays publishes
for the first time a fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of
the Penshurst manuscript, the only copy of the play containing all
five acts, handwritten by Wroth and privately owned by the Viscount
De L'Isle. Edited by Alison Findlay, Philip Sidney and Michael G.
Brennan, their critical introduction provides details of Wroth's
remarkable life and work as a member of the Sidney family, tracing
connections between Love's Victory, her prose and poetry and her
family's extensive writings. The editors introduce readers to the
influence of court drama on Love's Victory and offer a new account
of the play's stage history in productions from 1999-2018.
Extensive commentary notes guiding the modern reader include
explanatory glosses, literary references and staging information.
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Love's Victory by Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651) is the first romantic
comedy written in English by a woman. The Revels Plays publishes
for the first time a fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of
the Penshurst manuscript, the only copy of the play containing all
five acts, handwritten by Wroth and privately owned by the Viscount
De L'Isle. Edited by Alison Findlay, Philip Sidney and Michael G.
Brennan, their critical introduction provides details of Wroth's
remarkable life and work as a member of the Sidney family, tracing
connections between Love's Victory, her prose and poetry and her
family's extensive writings. The editors introduce readers to the
influence of court drama on Love's Victory and offer a new account
of the play's stage history in productions from 1999-2018.
Extensive commentary notes guiding the modern reader include
explanatory glosses, literary references and staging information.
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This authoritative edition was originally published in the
acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of
Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Sidney's
poetry and prose - all the major writing, complemented by letters
and elegies - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Born in
1554, Sir Philip Sidney was hailed as the perfect Renaissance
patron, soldier, lover, and courtier, but it was only after his
untimely death at the age of 31 that his literary accomplishments
were truly recognized. This collection ranges more widely through
Sidney's works than any previous volume and includes substantial
parts of both versions of the Arcadia, The Defence of Poesy and the
whole of the sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella. Supplementary
texts, such as his letters and the numerous elegies which appeared
after his death, help to illustrate the whole spectrum of his
achievements, and the admiration he inspired in his contemporaries.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Philip Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his `Old'
Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of
Pembroke. The book, which he called 'a trifle, and that triflingly
handled', reflects their youthful vitality. The `Old' Arcadia tells
a romantic story in a manner comparable to that of Shakespeare's
early comedies. It is divided into five `Acts', and abounds in
lively speeches, dialogues, and quasi-dramatic tableaux. Two young
princes, Pyrocles and Musidorus, disguise themselves as an Amazon
and a shepherd to gain access to the Arcadian Princesses, who have
been taken into semi-imprisonment by their father to avoid the
dangers foretold by an oracle. As a vehicle for Sidney's prophetic
ideas about English versification, the `Old' Arcadia also includes
over seventy poems in a wide variety of metres and genres. In
clarity, symmetry, and coherence the `Old' version is greatly
superior both to the ambitious but unfinished `New' Arcadia and the
amalgamated, `composite' version, a hybrid monster which Sidney
himself never envisaged. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of
literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects
Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate
text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert
introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the
text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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