Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid: By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger
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Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid: By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger
By (Author) Jos A. Prez Dez
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
11th January 2022
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
822.3
Physical Properties
Hardback
288
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 17mm
481g
Description
John Fletcher and Philip Massingers comedy Loves Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovative and provocative play that explores the struggle of two transgender siblings, Lucio and Clara, who have been brought up as members of their opposite genders.
After twenty years of separation, they are forced to switch around their gender identities, facing fierce scrutiny from their family and the cruelly heteronormative society of early modern Seville. This Revels Plays volume is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of the play ever to be published. The text has been modernised and is accompanied by full commentary. The introduction presents ground-breaking research on the plays remarkable engagement with its Spanish literary sources, and it provides a full discussion of its dating, authorship, and reception by literary critics and in the theatre.
Author Bio
Jos A. Prez Dez is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of English at the University of Leeds
