Common conditions (?1576).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barker, Roberta.

Malone Society.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Malone Society reprints ; v. 168.

The Malone Society reprints ; v. 168

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobility--Drama.

Nobility.

Parent and child--Drama.

Parent and child.

Arabian Peninsula.

Arabian Peninsula--Drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Comedies.

Physical Description:

xxx, 56 pages : facsimiles ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for the Malone Society by Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

This volume contains a photofacsimile edition of the only known surviving copy of the first quarto edition of the anonymous Elizabethan play, Common Conditions (1576). As the volume's brief introduction shows, this quarto is of outstanding scholarly interest for a number of reasons. The play itself is an important instance of the transition from the late medieval morality play toward the emergent early modern theatrical genres of comedy and romance. The surviving copy of the first quarto, now owned by the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, was long believed lost; it offers the only complete available text of the play. Furthermore, this quarto contains interesting annotations and revisions in an early modern hand, which are clearly visible in the facsimile. This volume will thus be of interest to students of early modern drama, of bibliography and of book ownership and reading.

Notes:

Prepared by Roberta Barker.

Facsimile of the first quarto edition belonging to the Elizabethan Club at Yale University (EC 47) prefaced by a bibliographical introd.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0197290442

OCLC:

57002035