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Two of John Lyly's most engaging plays -- .

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Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship.

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Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship.

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A fully annotated critical edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massingers ground-breaking comedy Loves Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615), a fascinating exploration of the journey of two transgender characters in an adverse heteronormative society. This Revels Plays edition offers a modernised text and a full critical commentary.

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A fully annotated critical edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massingers ground-breaking comedy Loves Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615), a fascinating exploration of the journey of two transgender characters in an adverse heteronormative society. This Revels Plays edition offers a modernised text and a full critical commentary.

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Lyly's most elegantly structured play, newly edited from the quarto of 1601 -- .

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Presents a commentary on "Love's Sacrifice". This book includes a survey of critical responses, an overview of the play, stage history, and a bibliography of relevant secondary material. It is of use to students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field.

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Loves Victory is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman, and this Revels edition is the first fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of this play by Lady Mary Wroth.

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Loves Victory is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman, and this Revels edition is the first fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of this play by Lady Mary Wroth.

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A play that offers an unusually cynical assessment of the social and familial displacements, and the alienation and loss of cultural memory so characteristic of life in the great metropolis of early modern London.

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Mother Bombie is unique among Lylys comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their masters aspirations for their own advantage.

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Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekkers Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekkers neglected stage romance newly available.

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Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekkers Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekkers neglected stage romance newly available.

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Back in print after a lengthy absence, this is one of the most enduring plays of its time, edited by scholar and recent advisor to the Globe Theatre, Andrew Gurr. It joins the roster of "The Revels Plays", almost 30 of which are now in print.

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Set in ancient Rome, this play offers the first statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus's wise rule with an English polity dominated (like the stage) by malice, intrigue and envy.

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This new edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy provides fresh information on the play, its author and the Jacobean text. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 161 version and takes the earlier version as "copy-text".

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This is a critical edition of a famous theatrical document from the Elizabethan age. It indicates that the play "Sir Thomas More", far from being unfinished and chaotic, was stageworthy and well-constructed, the best extant example of the genre of biographical history.

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This text is related to contemporary theatrical conventions and conditions and offers a critical account of the play closely attuned to a sense of theatre. Aspects of the play discussed include its response to 'Machiavellian' ideas and the degree to which its sensational violence can provoke laughter from the audience.

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This edition contains an introduction which looks at the special place of the play in Jonson's own life, his interest in London, the theatrical setting of the play and its sources and analogues. It also includes critical and explanatory commentaries and a glossarial index.

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An authoritative edition of one of the most popular plays in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- .

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This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher and Massinger's The False One, with an introduction that offers new insights on the date and the theatre of the play's first performance, freshly examines its sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that has hitherto been lost to the dramatic repertory.

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This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher and Massingers The False One, with an introduction that offers new insights on the date and the theatre of the plays first performance, freshly examines its sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that has hitherto been lost to the dramatic repertory.

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The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times.

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The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times.