The tragedy of Cleopatra, queene of Aegypt / by Thomas May ; a critical edition [edited by] Denzell S. Smith.
Published in 1979: No earlier edition of this play offers a satisfactory text because an old-spelling critical edition requires a conflation of the author's autograph manuscript and the first printed edition of 1639. Further, this play, while illustrating Caroline skepticism concerning the char...
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| Other title: | Tragedie of Cleopatra Tragoedy of Cleopatra, queene of Aegypt. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2018.
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| Series: | Renaissance drama.
Routledge revivals. |
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| Summary: | Published in 1979: No earlier edition of this play offers a satisfactory text because an old-spelling critical edition requires a conflation of the author's autograph manuscript and the first printed edition of 1639. Further, this play, while illustrating Caroline skepticism concerning the character of a personage long famous in narrative and dramatic literature as well as in history, departs from the literary tradition of the preceding three centuries. An account of the reasons for its departure invites consideration of its sources, but more important, of the beliefs of the dramatist's contemporaries as shown in both life and literature. |
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| Item Description: | "First published in 1979 by Garland Publishing, Inc." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780429053801 0429053800 9780429618482 0429618484 9780429620638 0429620632 9780429622786 0429622783 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 5, 2019) |