William Davenant’s The Platonic Lovers

William Davenant’s The Platonic Lovers
Author: Wendell W. Broom
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0429682557

First published in 1987, this 23rd volume in the Renaissance Imagination series had the objective of establishing the text of William Davenant’s The Platonick Lovers that most closely represents the author’s final vision for his work. Wendell W. Broom Jr documents the history of the publication of The Platonick Lovers and the manner in which the present text was produced. Copies of all relevant editions have been collated and curated to bring together the definitive authorial version of the text.

An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example

An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example
Author: William F. Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2019-07-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0429656629

Originally published in 1987, An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example, offers a critical examination of James Shirley's 1634 play, The Example, based on collating ten of the twenty-one copies of the play noted in Sir Walter Greg's Bibliography.

Handbook of English Renaissance Literature

Handbook of English Renaissance Literature
Author: Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110444887

This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.

A Critical Edition of Alexander’s Ross’s 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter

A Critical Edition of Alexander’s Ross’s 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter
Author: John R. Glenn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 661
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 042968276X

First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not only a wealth of factual information concerning the gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters of ancient myth and legend, but also served as a treasury of interpretation and commentary ingeniously explaining the facts in terms moral, theological, historical and scientific.

A Critical Edition of The Play of the Wether

A Critical Edition of The Play of the Wether
Author: John Heywood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0429575327

Published in 1987: The Play of the Wether is an English interlude or morality play from the early Tudor period. represents the Roman deity Jupiter on earth asking mortals to make cases for their preferred weather following heavenly dissension among the gods. It is the first published play to nominate "The Vice" on its title page.