The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex : By John Ford

Name: The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex : By John Ford
Brand: Lisa Hopkins
SKU: 9781526181145
Price: 95.63 GBP
Availability: InStock

by Lisa Hopkins

Title:

Author:

Lisa Hopkins

Series (if any):

The Revels Plays

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

160 pages, 0 illustrations

Publisher:

Manchester University Press (P648)

ISBN-13:

9781526181145

EAN:

9781526181145

Classifications:

Plays, playscripts

Weight (g):

448

Dimensions (mm):

222 x 147 x 17

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£95.63

1 copies in stock

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Description

A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford, which has not seen much previous critical attention due to being accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his complete works. The introduction resituates the play in the Ford canon and explores how it spoke to audiences when it was first composed in the late 1620s, when it tapped into the contemporary fascination with the pathology of melancholy, and also when it was finally published in 1653. By this time the play's main plot about a sovereign who is threatened with execution would have recalled the beheading of Charles I four years earlier. The play can thus be seen as examining both psychology and politics.