The malcontent / John Marston ; edited by George K. Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marston, John, 1575?-1634.

Contributor:

Hunter, G. K.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Revels student editions

Language:

English

Physical Description:

v, 131 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2000.

Summary:

"This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer." """The Malcontent" is a striking example of the new satiric tone and moral seriousness in English comedy of the early 1600s. The play's vision of a fallen humanity driven by lust and ambition is created partly by its depiction of Machiavellian intrigue in the court of Genoa, and partly by the disaffected Malevole, the malcontent of the title, who is actually the deposed Duke Altofronto in disguise. Marston's tragi-comedy is full of reversals, surprises and moral transformations and offers a thin disguise for the Jacobean court and its vices. This new student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, theme, critical interpretation and stage history.

Notes:

"... presents a new introduction, together with a revised reading text and commentary notes"--pref.

"Based on the Revels plays edition edited by George K. Hunter, published by Meuthen & Co., 1975, reprinted by Manchester University Press, 1999".

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0719053641

OCLC:

46601172