Saul : A Drama, in Three Parts (Second Edition) / Charles Heavysege; Douglas Lochhead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heavysege, Charles, author.

Contributor:

Lochhead, Douglas, editor.

Series:

Toronto reprint library of Canadian prose and poetry.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saul, King of Israel--Drama.

Saul.

Israel--Kings and rulers--Drama.

Israel.

Genre:

Religious drama.

Historical drama.

Drama.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages).

Edition:

2d ed., carefully rev. and emended. Montreal, J. Lovell, 1859.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Charles Heavysege's chief and best-known work, the long-verse drama and tragedy Saul, was published in Montreal in 1857. Coventry Patmore, reviewing Saul in the North British Review, ranked it as the greatest English poem published outside Great Britain. Hawthorne, Emerson, and Longfellow were all enthusiastic in their praise, and the play went into three editions. Saul is a drama of 135 scenes containing the remarkable character of the fallen angel Malzah, who has been compared by critics to Shakespeare's Caliban. Itis a powerful presentation of the tormented soul caught in a world of order and universal degree. Its main interest is to be found in the psychological frankness - Saul's recognition of his demon resonates with the deeper implication of the recognition of the döppelgänger - and in passages of sinewy verse written with a directness that anticipates E.J. Pratt.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Introduction

Saul. First Part

Saul. Second Part

Saul. Third Part

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781487589943

1487589948

9781487592929

1487592922

OCLC:

1091712345