The False One
By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger
Seiten
2022
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5163-6 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5163-6 (ISBN)
This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One, with an introduction that offers new insights on the date and the theatre of the play’s first performance, freshly examines its sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that has hitherto been lost to the dramatic repertory. -- .
Advertised in its Prologue as a prequel to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One is the first literary work completely to revolve around the affair between Caesar and Cleopatra. In its deployment of their liaison as a venue for the exploration and criticism of contemporary political manoeuvring and its high-spirited and pungent appropriation of Roman history, the play proves to be one of the most compelling Jacobean dramatizations of the classical past.
This Revels Plays edition offers the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of The False One, with a thorough introduction that provides new insights on the date and the theatre of the play’s first performance, examines the playwrights’ reworking of their sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that has hitherto regrettably been lost to the dramatic repertory. -- .
Advertised in its Prologue as a prequel to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One is the first literary work completely to revolve around the affair between Caesar and Cleopatra. In its deployment of their liaison as a venue for the exploration and criticism of contemporary political manoeuvring and its high-spirited and pungent appropriation of Roman history, the play proves to be one of the most compelling Jacobean dramatizations of the classical past.
This Revels Plays edition offers the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of The False One, with a thorough introduction that provides new insights on the date and the theatre of the play’s first performance, examines the playwrights’ reworking of their sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that has hitherto regrettably been lost to the dramatic repertory. -- .
Domenico Lovascio is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Genoa' -- .
List of illustrations
General editors’ preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and references
Introduction
Dating and authorship
A Blackfriars play?
Staging Rome: Republic and empire
Sources
The title
Critical reception
Stage history
The text
The false one
Appendix 1: Latin transcription of passages from Lucan’s Pharsalia cited in the Commentary
Appendix 2: ‘Look out, bright eyes, and bless the air’
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.06.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Revels Plays |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-5163-4 / 1526151634 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-5163-6 / 9781526151636 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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