The works of John Webster / edited by David Gunby [and others] ; with a note and transcription of music by Peter Walls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webster, John, 1580?-1625?

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Gunby, D. C. (David Charles)

Carnegie, David, 1943-

Jackson, MacDonald P. (MacDonald Pairman)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections

Language:

English

English, Middle (1100-1500)

Subjects (All):

Revenge--Drama.

Revenge.

English drama--17th century.

English drama.

Genre:

Tragedies (Drama)

Drama.

Tragedies.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

An old-spelling critical edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995-2019.

Summary:

This is the third and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster. Volume one contains The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, and Volume two The Devil's Law-Case, A Cure for a Cuckold, and Appius and Virginia. This volume contains the final complete play in the edition, the City comedy Anything for a Quiet Life, as well as Webster's spectacular Lord Mayor's pageant Monuments of Honour and his Induction and additions to John Marston's The Malcontent. Webster's non-dramatic work is also included: the deeply-felt verse elegy to Prince Henry entitled A Monumental Column, his various shorter poems, including verses for the engraving of The Progeny of ... Prince James, and the thirty-two New Characters added to the sixth edition of Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters. His additions to The Malcontent and his verses for The Progeny of ... Prince James have been included. Furthermore, this Cambridge critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays, poetry, and prose, and incorporates the most recent editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays, and critical methods and textual theory. In particular, the edition integrates theatrical aspects of the plays with their bibliographical and literary features. The edition presents all Webster's plays as well as the poems and prose (with the exception of those collaborative plays already published in the Cambridge editions of Dekker, and Beaumont and Fletcher under the editorship of Fredson Bowers), and provides a brief biography, illustrations, and a critical, textual, and, for the drama, theatrical history of each work. This final volume includes an important revision of the canon of John Webster that clarifies his collaborations, and also provides a fresh determination on plays, poems, and other works previously claimed as his. The edition will be of interest to scholars and students of drama and English literature, and to theatre practitioners and historians.

Contents:

v. 1. The white devil ; The Duchess of Malfi

v. 2. The Devil's law-case ; A cure for a cuckold ; Appius and Virginia

v. 3. Anything for a quiet life. Monuments of honour. Webster's induction and additions to the Malcontent. A Monumental column. Shorter poems. New characters

v. 4. Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The fair maid of the inn

Notes:

New Zealand editors.

Vol. 2 / edited by David Gunby, David Carnegie, Macdonald P. Jackson.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Webster, John, 1580?-1625? Plays. Selections. Works of John Webster.

ISBN:

0521260590

9780521260596

0521260604

9780521260602

9780521260619

9780521766012

052176601X

0521260612

0521033322

9780521033329

9780521035118

0521035112

9780521084987

0521084989

OCLC:

28413996

Online:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 93024457

Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 93024457

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