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.


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.


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: 0429659067

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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.


The School of Cyrus

The School of Cyrus

Author: James Tatum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1000696596

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Originally published in 1987, this book is a translation of Xenophon's Cyropaedeia (The Education of Cyprus), first published in 1567.


William Davenant’s The Platonic Lovers

William Davenant’s The Platonic Lovers

Author: Wendell W. Broom

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0429682557

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First published in 1987, this 23rd volume in the Renaissance Imagination series had the objective of establishing the text of William Davenant’s The Platonick Lovers that most closely represents the author’s final vision for his work. Wendell W. Broom Jr documents the history of the publication of The Platonick Lovers and the manner in which the present text was produced. Copies of all relevant editions have been collated and curated to bring together the definitive authorial version of the text.