Thierry and Theodoret : John Fletcher, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field

Name: Thierry and Theodoret : John Fletcher, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field
Brand: Domenico Lovascio
SKU: 9781526164209
Price: 95.63 GBP
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by Domenico Lovascio

Title:

Author:

Domenico Lovascio

Series (if any):

The Revels Plays

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

248 pages, 4 black & white illustrations

Publisher:

Manchester University Press (P648)

ISBN-13:

9781526164209

EAN:

9781526164209

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

564

Dimensions (mm):

146 x 224 x 21

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£95.63

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Description

Enthusiastically praised by Charles Lamb and A. C. Swinburne but unjustly neglected since the early twentieth century, Thierry and Theodoret dramatizes events from medieval French history. With its disenchanted depiction of royalty, its eerie instability in terms of genre, and its black comic overtones, Thierry and Theodoret strikes as a distinctive specimen of tragic drama in the Jacobean mould and ranks as one of the most powerful plays in the canon of John Fletcher and his collaborators. This Revels Plays volume is the first fully annotated critical edition of the play, and the first to attribute it to Nathan Field alongside Fletcher and Philip Massinger. It provides a thorough introduction reassessing the play's engagement with its sources - including Shakespeare - and discusses the dating, authorship, and reception of this bizarrely captivating play, pointing the way for future scholarship, especially of a historical or gender-based nature.