Dramatic Works Beaumont Fletcher v9: Volume 9, the Sea Voyage, the Double Marriage, the Prophetess, the Little French Lawyer, the El (Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon) - Softcover

Bowers, Fredson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521060508 ISBN 13: 9780521060509

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This is the ninth volume in a ten-volume series of the critical old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical principles. This volume contains the texts of six plays written by Fletcher and his collaborators, William Rowley and Philip Massinger. Each play is introduced by a discussion of the text and authorship, has variant readings in footnotes, and is followed by full textual notes and lists of press-variants, emendations of accidentals and historical collations.

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Review

"Overall, Bowers' authoritative editions of the Beaumont and Fletcher canon provide a much-needed service for the small but ever diligent body of Beaumont anf Fletcher scholars. One is immediately impressed with the years of research and cross-reference required to amass such a complete cataloging of textual variants, emendations, and authorial collaborations." The Sixteenth Century Journal

"...these volumes...will survive for a long time as a monument to Bower's influential ideas about the critical text." Alan Shepard, Renaissance Quarterly

Book Description

This is the ninth volume in a ten-volume series of the critical old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical principles. This volume contains the texts of six plays written by Fletcher and his collaborators, William Rowley and Philip Massinger.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521060508
• ISBN 13: 9780521060509
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 676