Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar

Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar
Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1995-04-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521460309

First modern full-length biography of scholar and member of late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Author: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2003-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1847144004

This collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences. Rivers explores the answers to certain crucial questions about the contemporary use of books. This new edition contains the results of important new research by well known specialists in the field of book and publishing history over the last two decades.

A Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton's The Witch

A Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton's The Witch
Author: Thomas Middleton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0429590113

Published in 1993: The first modern scholarly edition of the author's play, not published until 1778. Sebastian reclaims his betrothed from Antonio; the Duchess avenges herself on the Duke for making her drink from her father; and Abberzanes and Francesca have an illicite affair. The witches are credible forces of evil.