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This edition seeks to evaluate "Antonio's Revenge" not merely as a
literary text but as a drama for a particular company, in a
specific theatre. The scholarly introduction explores the high
degree of originality in Marston's dramatic techniques and
establishes him as a leading innovator in both the language and the
dramaturgy of his day. Ostensibly the second part of "Antonio and
Mellida," a satiric romance published in 1599, "Antonio's Revenge"
differs in both theme and linguistic style. Reavley Gair offers an
insightful analysis of the play's relationship with Shakespeare's
"Hamlet" --written at about the same time--and a new interpretation
of the relations between dramatic companies at the Globe and the
Paul's Theatre.
Antonio and Mellida was the first play by John Marston performed by
the newly revived Paul's Company in 1599. Marston sought to display
a variety of talents, comic, tragic, satiric and historical,
advertising his own dramatic skills and the prowess of the
choristers of Paul's. The play is based on incidents in the reigns
of Sforza, Francesco, Galeazzo and Lodovico, who were Dukes of
Milan in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Marston
displays a detailed knowledge of the dramatic works of Shakespeare,
Seneca, Kyd and Nashe as well as the prose of Sidney, Erasmus,
Montaigne, Florio and others. This edition relates the play to a
wide variety of literary contexts. It also includes a comprehensive
introduction, an analysis of staging, and full commentary. The text
is based on a collation of all known copies of the 1602 Quarto and
is presented in a thoroughly modernised format. -- .
This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers
by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar
of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over
thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian
languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali.
The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from
morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and
areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and
extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and
making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important
resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists
interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.
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