Swetnam the woman-hater arraigned by women (1620) / Edited, with introduction, notes and illustrations, and fac-similes by Alexander B. Grosart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899.

Flores, Juan de, active 15th century-16th century.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Occasional issues of unique or very rare books ; no. 30.

Occasional issues of unique or very rare books ; no. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Swetnam, Joseph, active 1617. Arraignment of lewd, idle, froward, and unconstant women.

Swetnam, Joseph.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

lii, 89 pages : illustrations, facsimile ; 24 cm.

Manufacture:

Manchester : Charles E. Simms.

Place of Publication:

[Blackburn, Eng.] : Printed for the Subscribers, 1880.

Notes:

"Limited to sixty-two copies--fifty distributed ... [to subscribers] and twelve editor's copies... Proof-sheets and waste pages have been destroyed."

With reproductions of original title-pages.

An answer to Swetnam's "Arraignment of lewd, idle, froward, and inconstant women," extracts from which and from other answers are quoted in the introduction. The plot of the play is based on the history of Aurelio and Isabella, a version of Juan de Flores' Historia de Grisel y Mirabella. cf. Pref. p. xxxvii; Cejedor y Frauca; Thomas. Spanish & Port. romances, p. 184; Fitzmaurice-Kelly.

Local Notes:

RBC has copy 10.

OCLC:

7128509