The Aphrodysial or Sea-Feast
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2022
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6951-8 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6951-8 (ISBN)
This edition for the first time makes available in print a semi-diplomatic edition of William Percy’s The Aphrodysial, as preserved in Huntington Library MS HM4. The accompanying introduction provides an account of Percy and his manuscript, and discusses the layers of authorial revisions and extensive stage directions found in the play. -- .
The Aphrodysial is one of six plays written by William Percy (c. 1570-1648), brother of the Ninth Earl of Northumberland (1564-1632). This edition reproduces the copy of the text preserved in Huntington Library MS HM4, with a substantial collation of variants between it and the other extant version preserved in Alnwick Castle Library MS 509.
This ‘Marinall’ is set at the underwater court of Oceanus. The action is concerned with piscatory and amatory pursuits that take place during Cytheræa’s Aphrodysial feast-day. The play offers a retelling of the Hero and Leander story, Jupiter and Neptune’s quest for Thetis’s lost magic bracelet, and the comical attempts of some fishermen, led by Proteus, to capture a talking whale. The play is notable for its extensive stage directions, which envisage performance by boy actors and adult actors respectively. -- .
The Aphrodysial is one of six plays written by William Percy (c. 1570-1648), brother of the Ninth Earl of Northumberland (1564-1632). This edition reproduces the copy of the text preserved in Huntington Library MS HM4, with a substantial collation of variants between it and the other extant version preserved in Alnwick Castle Library MS 509.
This ‘Marinall’ is set at the underwater court of Oceanus. The action is concerned with piscatory and amatory pursuits that take place during Cytheræa’s Aphrodysial feast-day. The play offers a retelling of the Hero and Leander story, Jupiter and Neptune’s quest for Thetis’s lost magic bracelet, and the comical attempts of some fishermen, led by Proteus, to capture a talking whale. The play is notable for its extensive stage directions, which envisage performance by boy actors and adult actors respectively. -- .
Maria Shmygol is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway -- .
INTRODUCTION
Provenance
Physical Description
Paper and Watermarks
- Hand
- Marginal Annotations
- Authorship
Date
Audience and Performance
Editorial Conventions
PLATES
THE TEXT -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.02.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Malone Society |
| Zusatzinfo | 6 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 194 x 236 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-6951-7 / 1526169517 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-6951-8 / 9781526169518 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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