The Maid's Tragedy: Beaumont and Fletcher
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Generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, The Maid's Tragedy (1610-11) disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered and very successful Victorian adaptation) until recent years, when major companies have rediscovered its appeal. In this fully annotated edition, the editor has given careful attention to the sense of the lines, the stage action and the verse. Many new emendations of textual errors, as well as improvements in stage directions and lineation, are either introduced or proposed. The introduction explores Beaumont and Fletcher's use of the three known sources (two of them previously neglected) for incidents in the play, gives the fullest available account of its stage history, and provides a sympathetic interpretation of the play as a romantic tragedy.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0719030986
ISBN13:9780719030987
Release Date:March 1999
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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