The text is taken from the Norton Critical Edition and includes a preface and footnotes by Byrus Hoy, professor emeritus at the University of Rochester. The preface speaks to the choice of text--primarily the second quarto with reliance on the folio as necessary--and places it in the context of its times and of the evolving criticism of the play.
The text is taken from the Norton Critical Edition and includes a preface and footnotes by Byrus Hoy, professor emeritus at the University of Rocheste...
Four of the plays in this volume are based on important source materials, so that the relationship of plays to sources looms large in Cyrus Hoy's introductory essays. There is an extensive account of the relation of The Shoemakers' Holiday to Deloney's Gentle Craft. The Introduction to Old Fortunatus relates in detail that play's relationship to the German Volksbuch, and to the German Comoedia von Fortunate und seinem Seckel und Wunschhutlein (1620), a redaction of Dekker's play. The Introduction to Patient Grissil relates Dekker, Chettle and Haughton's play to the tradition of the Griselda...
Four of the plays in this volume are based on important source materials, so that the relationship of plays to sources looms large in Cyrus Hoy's intr...
Companion guide to the second volume of Dekker's plays, with introductions and commentary on The Honest Whore Pt 1, The Honest Whore Pt 2, The Magnificent Entertainment Given to King James, Westward Ho, Northward Ho and The Whore of Babylon.
Companion guide to the second volume of Dekker's plays, with introductions and commentary on The Honest Whore Pt 1, The Honest Whore Pt 2, The Magnifi...
Companion guide to the fourth volume of Dekker's plays, with introductions and commentary on The Sun's Darling, Britannia Honour, London's Tempe, Lust's Dominion, The Noble Spanish Soldier, The Welsh Ambassador.
Companion guide to the fourth volume of Dekker's plays, with introductions and commentary on The Sun's Darling, Britannia Honour, London's Tempe, Lust...
