Thomas of Woodstock

Herausgeber: Corbin, Peter; Sedge, Douglas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines an anonymous manuscript play that has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare's "Richard II". This title situates the play within its historical and political context, relating it to the genre of chronicle drama to which it belongs.

Produktdetails

• The Revels Plays
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780719080678
• ISBN-10: 0719080673
• Artikelnr.: 26247960

Autorenporträt

Peter Corbin was General Editor of the Revels Plays Companion Library and is Honorary Fellow in the School of Drama and Music at the University of Exeter. Douglas Sedge is Honorary Fellow in the School of Drama and Music at the University of Exeter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The manuscript 2. Title 3. Authorship 4. Date and literary
influences 5. The Play's sources and their treatment 6. The reign of
Richard II and the 1590s 7. Censorship of the manuscript 8. The play 9. The
ending 10. Stage history 11. This edition Thomas of Woodstock Apendices a.
Grafton b. Holinshed c. Stowe d. Marginal interventions in the manuscript
e. Casting and doubling for performance Index