The Duchess of Malfi is amacabre, tragic play which is often performed and studied at A leveland university. This Arden edition brings all the scholarship andcomprehensive analysis associated with the series and offers readers adeeper understanding...
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The Duchess of Malfi is amacabre, tragic play which is often performed and studied at A leveland university. This Arden edition brings all the scholarship andcomprehensive analysis associated with the series and offers readers adeeper understanding of the play than competing editions. Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- General editors' preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- Who was John Webster? -- Webster and Jacobean nostalgia -- The play and the historical sources -- The Aragonian brothers -- Clandestine marriage -- Bosola -- Language and action -- Language and source -- Melancholy and determinism -- The text -- Early performances and afterlives -- Quarto paratext -- THE DUCHESS OF MALFI -- Appendix 1: The story of the Duchess of Malfi -- Appendix 2: A contemporary werewolf -- Appendix 3: Musical setting for the madman's song, 'O let us howl' (4.2.60-71) -- Abbreviations and references -- Abbreviations used in notes -- Abbreviations for Shakespeare plays -- Editions of The Duchess of Malfi collated -- Other works cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar. Leah Marcus...
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Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar. Leah Marcus argues that `bad' versions of Renaissance texts such as Shakespeare's First Folio should not be viewed as mutilated copies of originals, but rather reputable alternatives encoding differences in ideology, cultural meaning and other elements of performance. Marcus focuses on key Renaissance works- Dr Faustus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of t
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: The blue-eyed witch; TEXTUAL INSTABILITY AND IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE: The case of Doctor Faustus; PURITY AND DANGER IN THE MODERN EDITION: The Merry Wives of Windsor; THE EDITOR AS TAMER: A Shrew and The Shrew; BAD TASTE AND BAD HAMLET; JOHN MILTON'S VOICE; Notes; Index
