The Return From Parnassus: Or the Scourge of Simony (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Smeaton, Oliphant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330479947 ISBN 13: 9781330479940

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Return From Parnassus: Or the Scourge of Simony The Return several characters in common, while certain of the personages in the third play refer to things that were said and done in the first and second. This much may, therefore, be affirmed at the outset, that the three plays had a common origin, were inspired, at least in the first issues or drafts of the pieces, by the same aims, and, finally, were illustrative of the same preferences and prejudices. Origin - the War of the Players. I prefer to use the word 'origin' in place of 'author' because I have the misfortune to differ from all preceding writers on this subject, in maintaining the play or plays to be the work not of any one writer, but rather of a group of dramatists which owed its origin to that bitter antagonism which prevailed for some years between Ben Jonson, supported by a small circle of friends, on the one side, and Marston, Daniel, Chettle, and Munday, supported by Dekker, on the other. Gradually most of the leading play-writers of the day were at one time or another drawn into the quarrel, which was waged with varying fortunes, and one of the curious features of the war was that some who began on one side, at the end of the conflict were found ranged on the other. How the Quarrel Began. Most scholars who have examined the subject with care, agree that two passages in Marston's Satires were the cause of the misunderstanding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfect

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330479947
• ISBN 13: 9781330479940
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174