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Four of the plays in this volume are based on important source materials, so that the relationship of plays to sources looms large in Cyrus Hoy's introductory essays. There is an extensive account of the relation of The Shoemakers' Holiday to Deloney's Gentle Craft. The Introduction to Old Fortunatus relates in detail that play's relationship to the German Volksbuch, and to the German Comoedia von Fortunate und seinem Seckel und Wünschhütlein (1620), a redaction of Dekker's play. The Introduction to Patient Grissil relates Dekker, Chettle and Haughton's play to the tradition of the Griselda story generally. The chronicle-history sources (Foxe, Grafton, Stow, Holinshed) of Sir Thomas Wyatt are surveyed in the Introduction, in his Introduction also, Professor Hoy considers the play's relationship to the lost play, Lady Jane, by Dekker, Chettle, Heywood, Webster and W. Smith. Satiromastix has no known source, but as Dekker's contribution to the stage quarrel of Marston and Jonson, this is a play that has always had particular interest for the student of Elizabethan theatrical history, and Professor Hoy therefore bestows on it the most elaborate Commentary in all these four volumes.
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Introductions, Notes, and Commentaries to Texts in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker (Volume 1 and 2)
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ISBN 10: 0521236479
ISBN 13: 9780521236478
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Condition: Good. 2 Volume set. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. Seller Inventory # Z1-C-037-01227
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Introductions, Notes, and Commentaries to Texts in 'The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker' [Complete 2 Volume Set]
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Cambridge University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0521236479
ISBN 13: 9780521236478
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Complete two volume set uniformly bound in dark green hardback bindings, complete with original dustjackets; showing well, bright, sharp and tight, no wear, no bumps. Contents crisp and clean. Note: to the reverse of the title-page there's a small 'damaged' stamp; however these books are totally undamaged hence they show no defects whatsoever. Thus a very nice set of books in nearly new condition, look and feel unread. Volume I comprises: Sir Thomas More: Dekker's Addition; The Shoemakers' Holiday; Old Fortunatus; Patient Grissil; Satiromastix; Sir Thomas Wyatt. Volume II: The Honest Whore, Part I; The Honest Whore, Part II; The Magnificent Entertainment; Westward Ho; Northward Ho; The Whore of Babylon. Seller Inventory # 108348
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