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This study examines the background to the well-known tales that Shakespeare used in his plays, describing their conventional use and then showing how Shakespeare deliberately subverted the motifs in order…
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This modern spelling edition of Euphues is designed to give contemporary readers access to this culturally significant text. The material is contextualized and fully annotated, with glosses and an introduction…
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Modern-spelling edition of the two works, allows the twenty-first century reader access to this culturally significant text. – .
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His last known work and the only one to be written primarily in verse, The Woman in the Moon is among Lyly’s most entertaining plays.
Discusses how meaning is generated in Shakespearian drama and the kinds of approaches that might lead to a fuller understanding of the plays. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of…
Discusses how meaning is generated in Shakespearean drama and the kinds of approaches that might lead to a fuller understanding of the plays. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of…
For the student or general reader a bewildering gap often appears to exist between the stories that Shakespeare’s plays enact and the meanings that critics adduce from them. This book…
A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity. – .
Lyly’s most elegantly structured play, newly edited from the quarto of 1601 – .
With reproduction of original title page: Pappe with an hatchet: alias, A figge for my god sonne, or, Cracke me this nut, or, A countrie cuffe, that is, a sound…
Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly’s comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure…
John Lyly
John Lyly was the principal court dramatist of the 1580s and author of the period’s best-selling prose work, Euphues . Three texts are included in this edition for both specialist…
A brand new Revels Student Edition of John Lyly’s most popular and enchanting play – .
