The Wonder of Women; Or, the Tragedie of Sophonisba, as It Hath Beene Sundry Times Acted at the Blacke Friers
The Wonder of Women; Or, the Tragedie of Sophonisba, as It Hath Beene Sundry Times Acted at the Blacke Friers

Author: John Marston

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-13

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9780342916252

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John Marston's The Wonder of Women or The Tragedy of Sophonisba
John Marston's The Wonder of Women or The Tragedy of Sophonisba

Author: William Kemp

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0429620624

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Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full text of James Marston's The Wonder of Women, alongside critical and textual notes. Previously to this volume, Sophonisba had appeared in print five times, once independently and four times in collections of Marston's plays; the first edition is a quarto printed in 1606 by John Windet.

The Tragedy of Tragedies
The Tragedy of Tragedies

Author: Henry Fielding

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1554811635

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Best known today for the novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Henry Fielding was just as renowned in his own time as a prolific and highly successful dramatist. Among his most popular plays was The Tragedy of Tragedies: Or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb, one of the most extraordinary parodies in English theater. The print version of the play incorporates, in an elaborate structure of annotations, a remarkable satire of heroic drama and of the pretensions and excesses of “false scholarship.” This edition includes the text of the play itself and the text of the extraordinary notes (by Fielding’s pseudonym “H. Scriblerus Secundus”), appearing in facing page layout; extensive explanatory notes for the modern reader appear at the bottom of the page. Also included are a substantial introduction and a wide range of background materials that set the work in the context of its time. These contextual materials include contemporary reviews, excerpts from the plays that Fielding’s parody most frequently targeted, and selections from works that provided inspiration for The Tragedy of Tragedies—from contemporary versions of the “Tom Thumb” folktale to satirical writing by authors such as Alexander Pope, John Gay, and George Villiers.

The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”
The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”

Author: Shokhan Rasool Ahmed

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1496992806

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The Staging of Witchcraft and a "Spectacle of Strangeness": Witchcraft at Court and the Globe presents a new interest in Continental texts on witchcraft coincided with technological advances in the English stage, which made a variety of dramatic effects possible in the private playhouses, such as flying witches, and the appearance of spirits and deities in Elizabethan plays. This book also evaluates how the technology of the Blackfriars playhouse facilitated the appearance of spirits, devils, witches, magicians, deities and dragons on stage. The study investigates the visual spectacle of witchcraft scenes which intersect with the genre of the plays, and it also presents to what extent changing theatrical tastes affect the way that supernatural characters are shown on stage.

The Tragedie of Coriolanus
The Tragedie of Coriolanus

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Classic Books Company

Published: 2001-04

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13: 0742653013

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The First Folio of 1623 was prepared for print by two members of Shakespeare's acting troupe -- John Hemings and Henry Condell -- which included comic actor Will Kemp and the great tragedian Richard Burbage. In a fascinating and detailed introduction, Freeman points out that because Shakespeare and his colleagues wrote from a rhetorical tradition -- a society where the emphasis was on the spoken word -- he wrote with an eye to how he wanted his plays performed, giving as much direction as possible to his actors. Freeman looks at what is known of the printing of that First Folio and analyzes the variations between the First Folio, later Folios, Quarto editions (where available) and modern editions of the plays. He examines the "corrections" made by editors over the centuries that have shaped the way we perceive Shakespeare today -- from the regularization of verse, to the changes from prose to verse (and vice versa) and the standardization of character prefixes.

John Marston's Drama
John Marston's Drama

Author: George L. Geckle

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780838621578

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A work of historical criticism that offers new interpretations of the nine plays attributed solely to John Marston. Explores his use of literary, historical, and intellectual sources and focuses on recurrent major images and themes in the plays.