Sir William Davenant

Sir William Davenant
Author: Alfred Harbage
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1512816655

First thorough biography of the colorful and gifted seventeenth-century playwright who was also the father of English opera, the first to use English actresses in his plays, and the creator of modern stage construction.

William Davenant’s The Platonic Lovers

William Davenant’s The Platonic Lovers
Author: Wendell W. Broom
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
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.