Antonio's revenge / John Marston ; edited by W. Reavley Gair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marston, John, 1575?-1634.

Contributor:

Gair, W. Reavley.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Revels plays

The Revels plays

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xiv, 178 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, [1999]

Summary:

This edition seeks to evaluate "Antonio's Revenge" not merely as a literary text but as a drama for a particular company, in a specific theatre. The scholarly introduction explores the high degree of originality in Marston's dramatic techniques and establishes him as a leading innovator in both the language and the dramaturgy of his day. Ostensibly the second part of "Antonio and Mellida," a satiric romance published in 1599, "Antonio's Revenge" differs in both theme and linguistic style. Reavley Gair offers an insightful analysis of the play's relationship with Shakespeare's "Hamlet" --written at about the same time--and a new interpretation of the relations between dramatic companies at the Globe and the Paul's Theatre.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0719057035

OCLC:

41834082