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Thomas Middleton's play, "A Game at Chess" provoked a scandal when it was first performed in 1624. Contemporary reports and official documents relating to the scandal (printed in the appendix, some for the first time), provide a context for this political play.

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First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton's most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama and Renaissance literature -- .

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Intends to appraise Ben Jonson's much-neglected play and argues for its recognition as a work of real distinction.

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Edition of Philip Massinger's most renowned play, part of the inestimable Revels Plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama -- .

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A much needed, fully annotated and modernized text of a long neglected play used by Shakespeare as the principal basis of King John. Published anonymously in 1591, it can now be attributed definitively to Peele and ranks as the most important Elizabethan history play after Shakespeare and Marlowe's Edward II. -- .

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This fully annotated version makes available on one of the most popular and influential plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, young contemporaries of Shakespeare. In discussing sources and stage history, the critical introduction challenges the common modern devaluation of these playwrights and offers a fresh, historically informed interpretation.

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First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton's most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama and Renaissance literature -- .

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In this edition, an extensive introduction and commentary show how Chapman combines the literary and theatrical traditions of ancient Rome with everyday life in his own time to fashion a sparkling and innovative comedy that will delight audiences today as much as it did those of 1599. -- .

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In this edition, an extensive introduction and commentary show how Chapman combines the literary and theatrical traditions of ancient Rome with everyday life in his own time to fashion a sparkling and innovative comedy that will delight audiences today as much as it did those of 1599. -- .

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George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597. -- .

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George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597. -- .

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A new in paperback edition of this first play by John Marston to be performed by the revived Paul's Company in 1599. Fully annotated with critical introduction and full commentary. -- .

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This edition seeks to evaluate the play not merely as a literary text but as a drama for a particular company within a specific theatre. A scholarly introduction explores the originality in Marston's dramatic techniques.

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This edition of George Chapman's tragedy is based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. The editor believes that the earlier text gives a more certain indication of Chapman's intentions and he has supported this view in his introduction.

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One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw light on the plays and to offer views of the plays that have been neglected in the past. -- .

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Martin's new critical edition of George Peele's David and Bathsheba opens up this explosive drama about the turbulent and bloody Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history to student and scholar alike with its modernized text, full scholarly apparatus, comprehensive introduction, and commentary notes. -- .

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Martin's new critical edition of George Peele's David and Bathsheba opens up this explosive drama about the turbulent and bloody Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history to student and scholar alike with its modernized text, full scholarly apparatus, comprehensive introduction, and commentary notes. -- .

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The first ever critical edition of Thomas Heywood's 1626 play, Dick of Devonshire, presented for the first time with an anthology of its source material.

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There has been no comparable modern-spelling single-play edition of Dido, Queen of Carthage for some decades. This edition, complete with collation and commentary included on the relevant page, is a thoroughly annotated and complete edition.

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In the REVELS PLAYS series, this book contains the text of the play and also its history and background together with a critical interpretation that takes account of its social, historical and theatrical context. It examines the relationship between the three authors and the problem of their collaboration. Aimed at students of Renaissance drama.

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This play was first performed in 1610, and it has been produced ever since. This edition is based on a reconsideration of the early texts, but the spelling and punctuation are modernised. The introduction details Jonson's life and the play's stage history, discusses the text and has a section on alchemy.

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In this love comedy, Lyly retells an ancient legend of the prolonged sleep of the man with whom the moon (Cynthia) fell in love. This edition makes an argument for the relevance of "Endymoin" to the threat of the Spanish Armada invasion of 1588 and to the role of the Earl of Oxford in England's politics of that decade.

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States that "Epicene" is one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. This book analyzed the play as originally written for the newly formed Children of the Queen's Revels, and performed at the little-known Whitefriars Theatre. It discusses the composition of the play, which took place during a critical period in Jonson's life and career.

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The 1601 quarto version of Johnson's play, set in Florence -- .