Introductions, notes, and commentaries to texts in The dramatic works of Thomas Dekker, edited by Fredson Bowers

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Introductions, notes, and commentaries to texts in The dramatic works of Thomas Dekker, edited by Fredson Bowers

Cyrus Hoy

Cambridge University Press, 1980

  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3
  • v. 4

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780521217866

Description

Four of the plays in this volume are based on important source materials, so that the relationship of plays to sources looms large in Cyrus Hoy's introductory essays. There is an extensive account of the relation of The Shoemakers' Holiday to Deloney's Gentle Craft. The Introduction to Old Fortunatus relates in detail that play's relationship to the German Volksbuch, and to the German Comoedia von Fortunate und seinem Seckel und Wunschhutlein (1620), a redaction of Dekker's play. The Introduction to Patient Grissil relates Dekker, Chettle and Haughton's play to the tradition of the Griselda story generally. The chronicle-history sources (Foxe, Grafton, Stow, Holinshed) of Sir Thomas Wyatt are surveyed in the Introduction, in his Introduction also, Professor Hoy considers the play's relationship to the lost play, Lady Jane, by Dekker, Chettle, Heywood, Webster and W. Smith. Satiromastix has no known source, but as Dekker's contribution to the stage quarrel of Marston and Jonson, this is a play that has always had particular interest for the student of Elizabethan theatrical history, and Professor Hoy therefore bestows on it the most elaborate Commentary in all these four volumes.

Table of Contents

  • Sir Thomas More: Dekker's Addition
  • The Shoemakers' Holiday
  • Old Fortunatus
  • Patient Grissil
  • Satiromastix
  • Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780521218948

Description

Companion guide to the second volume of Dekker's plays, with introductions and commentary on The Honest Whore Pt 1, The Honest Whore Pt 2, The Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James, Westward Ho, Northward Ho and The Whore of Babylon.

Table of Contents

  • The Honest Whore Pt 1 (with Thomas Middleton)
  • The Honest Whore Pt 2
  • The Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James
  • Westward Ho (with John Webster)
  • Northward Ho (with John Webster)
  • The Whore of Babylon.
Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780521223362

Description

Companion guide to the third volume of Dekker's plays, with introductions and commentary on The Roaring Girl, If this be Not a Good Play, the Devil is in it, Troia-Nova Triumphans, Match me in London, The Virgin Martyr, The Witch of Edmonton and The Wonder of a Kingdom.

Table of Contents

  • The Roaring Girl
  • If this be Not a Good Play, the Devil is in it
  • Troia-Nova Triumphans
  • Match me in London
  • The Virgin Martyr
  • The Witch of Edmonton
  • The Wonder of a Kingdom.
Volume

v. 4 ISBN 9780521225069

Description

Companion guide to the fourth volume of Dekker's plays, with introductions and commentary on The Sun's Darling, Britannia Honour, London's Tempe, Lust's Dominion, The Noble Spanish Soldier, The Welsh Ambassador.

Table of Contents

  • The Sun's Darling
  • Britannia Honour
  • London's Tempe
  • Lust's Dominion
  • The Noble Spanish Soldier
  • The Welsh Ambassador.

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