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Author: John Addington Symonds
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 3732647838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: Plays by Webster & Tourneur by John Addington Symonds
Author: John Webster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780521260619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the third and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster. It contains the final complete play in the edition, the City comedy Anything for a Quiet Life, as well as Webster's spectacular Lord Mayor's pageant Monuments of Honour and his Induction and additions to John Marston's The Malcontent. Webster's non-dramatic work is also included: the deeply felt verse elegy to Prince Henry entitled A Monumental Column, his various shorter poems, including verses for the engraving of The Progeny of ... Prince James, and the thirty-two New Characters added to the sixth edition of Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters. This Cambridge critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays, poetry and prose, and incorporates the most recent editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays, and new critical methods and textual theory.
Author: Don D. Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1134782985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
Author: Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-09-08
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780521249270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The plays of John Webster are read and seen more widely today than at any time since they were written - provoking much disagreement in the process. The continuing debate about his political, religious and philosophical attitudes, his formal skills and the importance of his plays for understanding the changing culture in which they were written, make Webster the most controversial of all Jacobean dramatists. This volume includes freshly collated, fully annotated and cross-referenced texts of his three best-known plays, together with introductions and a useful critical bibliography.
Author: MacDonald Pairman Jackson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780199260508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'That very great play, Pericles', as T. S. Eliot called it, poses formidable problems of text and authorship. The first of the Late Romances, it was ascribed to Shakespeare when printed in a quarto of 1609, but was not included in the First Folio (1623) collection of his plays. This bookexamines rival theories about the quarto's origins and offers compelling evidence that Pericles is the product of collaboration between Shakespeare and the minor dramatist George Wilkins, who was responsible for the first two acts and for portions of the 'brothel scenes' in Act 4. Pericles serves asa test case for methodologies that seek to define the limits of the Shakespeare canon and to rdentify co-authors. A wide range of metrical, lexical, and other data is analysed. Computerized 'stylometric' texts are explained and their findings assessed. A concluding chapter introduces a new techniquethat has the potential to answer many of the remaining questions of attribution associated with Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
