9780719062346

The Stukeley Plays

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780719062346

Hardcover|9780719062346


Overview

Sir Thomas Stukeley, the notorious English courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier, died at the Battle of Alcazar in Morocco in 1578, while serving in the army of King Sebastian of Portugal. This volume comprises the first modern-spelling, annotated edition of two plays in which he is a major character: George Peele's 'The Battle of Alcazar' (c.1588), and the anonymous 'Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley' (c.1596).

In his extensive introduction and commentary, Charles Edelman discusses the plays' authorship, their many textual problems, and what they reveal about Elizabethan performance practices. He also challenges most of the traditional assumptions about them. This edition shows that both works, long held to be unperformable, are instead fascinating and worthwhile representatives of the most exciting age in the history of the theatre.

ISBN-13

9780719062346

ISBN-10

0719062349

Weight

0.83 Pounds

Dimensions

5.82 x 1.04 x 8.72 In

List Price

$120.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

256 pages

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published On

2005-05-05



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