A King and No King: Beaumont and Fletcher (The Revels Plays) [Hardcover]

Lee Bliss (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0719058635 | ISBN-13: 978-0719058639 | Publication Date: November 4, 2004 | Edition: annotated edition

A King and No King helped establish tragicomedy as the seventeenth century's favored dramatic genre, and Beaumont and Fletcher as leading playwrights of the day. Accompanying this fully annotated edition, an introduction explores the play's sources, both literary and dramatic, and offers a thorough reconsideration of its relation to its social and political context, and contemporary issues of royal absolutism, good governance, and the political role of the aristocracy. In addition, the introduction provides the fullest available account of the play's stage history, tracing the shifts in cultural mores that eroded its popularity and ultimately consigned it to the study rather than the stage.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Bliss provides the play with much needed breathing space in her fine introduction… Lee Bliss and the Manchester University Press have produced an edition of a fascinating play to the Revels Play's usual high standards” --Elliott Kendall, TLS

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Manchester University Press; annotated edition edition (November 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0719058635
• ISBN-13: 978-0719058639
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,550,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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