The last volume in The Oxford English Text's Byron Series, this crictical study discusses Byron's poetry of the last two years of his life, 1823 and 1824, and supplies individual indexes of his poems by volume and page number, titles, and first lines. The book also includes a general index to the work as a whole.

The penultimate work in the Oxford English Text's Byron Series, this volume, described by Ian Jack as "one of the finest editions we have of any of the Romantic poets," contains all Byron's works of 1821 and 1822, including his late plays--The Two Foscari, Sardanapalus, Cain: A Mystery, and the unfinished, The Deformed Transformed.

The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play.

Mariam is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves the desire of today's readers and scholars to know not merely how women were represented in the early modern period but also how they themselves perceived their own condition.

With this textually emended and fully annotated edition, the play will now be accessible to all readers. The...