The Plays and Poems of William Heminge
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This is the first edition of the complete works of William Heminge (1602-c.1653), son of Shakespeare's colleague and first co-editor, John Heminge. It contains a biography, critical old-spelling texts of his two surviving plays, The Jewes Tragedy and The Fatal Contract, and the small group of poems assigned to him in contemporary manuscripts. Heminge's tragedies in particular reveal him to be an innovative writer deserving far greater critical attention than he has previously received. He is both the first dramatist in English to see the theatrical potential of Josephus's account of 'the Fall…mehr

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This is the first edition of the complete works of William Heminge (1602-c.1653), son of Shakespeare's colleague and first co-editor, John Heminge. It contains a biography, critical old-spelling texts of his two surviving plays, The Jewes Tragedy and The Fatal Contract, and the small group of poems assigned to him in contemporary manuscripts. Heminge's tragedies in particular reveal him to be an innovative writer deserving far greater critical attention than he has previously received. He is both the first dramatist in English to see the theatrical potential of Josephus's account of 'the Fall of the Temple', and the first to challenge the conventions of revenge drama by presenting a fully autonomous female avenger on the English stage.
Autorenporträt
Carol A. Morley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. A first degree in English at Newnham College, Cambridge was followed by an MA in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. She combined a freelance career as a theater director with teaching, educational tourism, and academic editing. She returned to full-time academic research with a Quintin Hogg scholarship at the University of Westminster, working on the doctoral thesis that is the basis of this book. She has recently held a British academy research fellowship at the University of Aberdeen, working on seventeenth-century manuscript diaries, and is now a lecturer in drama at Rose Bruford College, Kent.