Part of the major re-launch of MUP's most prestigious series. The text is supported by variant readings, detailed notes, and a statistical breakdown of word use. A number of these plays are being performed at the Globe Theatre and in rep as well as being set on a number of drama courses. The acclaimed and most authoritative version of these plays thought of as the 'companion' to the Arden Shakespeare. The only commercially available edition of the play currently in print.

Antonio and Mellida was the first play by John Marston performed by the newly revived Paul's Company in 1599. Marston sought to display a variety of talents, comic, tragic, satiric and historical, advertising his own dramatic skills and the prowess of the choristers of Paul's. The play is based on incidents in the reigns of Sforza, Francesco, Galeazzo and Lodovico, who were Dukes of Milan in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Marston displays a detailed knowledge of the dramatic works of Shakespeare, Seneca, Kyd and Nashe as well as the prose of Sidney, Erasmus, Montaigne,...