A Critical Edition of Alexander’s Ross’s 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter
A Critical Edition of Alexander’s Ross’s 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter

Author: John R. Glenn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 0429682778

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First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not only a wealth of factual information concerning the gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters of ancient myth and legend, but also served as a treasury of interpretation and commentary ingeniously explaining the facts in terms moral, theological, historical and scientific.

An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example
An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example

Author: William F. Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-18

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0429656629

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Originally published in 1987, An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example, offers a critical examination of James Shirley's 1634 play, The Example, based on collating ten of the twenty-one copies of the play noted in Sir Walter Greg's Bibliography.

A Critical Edition of The Play of the Wether
A Critical Edition of The Play of the Wether

Author: John Heywood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0429575327

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Published in 1987: The Play of the Wether is an English interlude or morality play from the early Tudor period. represents the Roman deity Jupiter on earth asking mortals to make cases for their preferred weather following heavenly dissension among the gods. It is the first published play to nominate "The Vice" on its title page.