A king and no king / Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher ; edited by Lee Bliss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616.

Contributor:

Fletcher, John, 1579-1625.

Bliss, Lee, 1943-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Revels plays

The Revels plays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616. King and no king.

Beaumont, Francis.

Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. King and no king.

Fletcher, John.

Physical Description:

ix, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004.

Summary:

"A King and No King helped establish tragicomedy as the seventeenth century's favored dramatic genre, and Beaumont and Fletcher as leading playwrights of the day. Accompanying this fully annotated edition, an introduction explores the play's sources, both literary and dramatic, and offers a thorough reconsideration of its relation to its social and political context, and contemporary issues of royal absolutism, good governance, and the political role of the aristocracy. In addition, the introduction provides the fullest available account of the play's stage history, tracing the shifts in cultural mores that eroded its popularity and ultimately consigned it to the study rather than the stage.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719058635

OCLC:

56379674