Plays of John Heywood (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780859913195)

The series is performing an important service by providing fully annotated editions of Tudor humanists and playwrights in the original Tudor English, with glossaries and listing of textual variants and doubtful readings. COMPARATIVE DRAMA

A first-rate edition that substantially advances the cause of scholarship.' COMPARATIVE DRAMA
First complete and fully annotated collection of John Heywood's plays in the original language. It makes possible a reevaluation ofhis remarkable achievement as actor-playwright and an appreciation of his lively contribution to the English language. In all their experimental variety the comedies are seen to have the stamp of an idiosyncratic, theatricalintelligence coupled with a surprising seriousness and Heywood emerges as a resourceful apologist for traditional Catholic doctrine in a time of Reformation. In arguing for a new chronology, the editors suggest that Henry VIII'sservant and entertainer was capable of refreshing irreverence and political daring.
Contents: Witty and Witles, Johan Johan, The Pardoner and theFrere, The Foure PP, A Play of Love, The Play of the Wether. Notes.Appendices: Verses from a lost Play of Reason, Translation of .
RICHARD AXTON is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and University lecturer in English. PETER HAPPﾉis the former Principal of Barton PeverilSixth-Form College.

Author: Richard Axton
ISBN-10: 0859913198
ISBN-13: 9780859913195
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Language: English
Published: 11/21/1991
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d