The Unhappy Favourite or the Earl of Essex / / John Banks; Thomas Marshall Howe Blair.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Banks, John,
• TeilnehmendeR: Blair, Thomas Marshall Howe,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1939]; ©1939
• Year of Publication: 1939
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction --; I. John Banks: His Life and Works --; II. The Unhappy Favourite: Commentary and Stage History --; III. The Source: The Secret History of the Most Renown'd Q. Elizabeth, and E. of Essex. By a Person of Quality --; IV. The Ring Episode: A Study in the Development of a Tradition --; The Unhappy Favourite: Facsimile of the 1682 Quarto, Slightly Reduced --; Notes to the Text of the Unhappy Favourite --; Appendix: Eighteenth-Century Essex Plays --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231897990; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/bank94300
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Banks; Thomas Marshall Howe Blair.

Makes available a modern reprint of a good, restoration play with two claims to distinction - It was the first dramatic treatment of the Elizabeth and Essex theme in literature and it set the stage of the she-tragedy as a new type of drama.