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The Works of John Webster: An Old-Spelling Critical Edition
David Gunby (Ed.)
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Description for The Works of John Webster: An Old-Spelling Critical Edition
hardcover. Third and final volume of the critical original-spelling edition of The Works of John Webster. Editor(s): Gunby, David; Jackson, MacDonald P. Series: The Works of John Webster. Num Pages: 576 pages, 19 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 902.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Series
The Works of John Webster
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521260619
SKU
V9780521260619
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About David Gunby (Ed.)
David Gunby is Dean of Postgraduate Studies, University of Canterbury. David Carnegie is Professor of Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. MacDonald P. Jackson is Emeritus Professor of English and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Auckland.
Reviews for The Works of John Webster: An Old-Spelling Critical Edition
'… a wealth of material and scholarly discussion as well as re-presenting texts … found to be both intriguing and enlightening insights into the early modern playing environment.' Andrew Hiscock, MLR