The Unhappy Favourite or the Earl of Essex / / 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.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1939] ©1939 |
Year of Publication: | 1939 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |