The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: Volume 7, Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Wit at Several Weapons, The Nice Valour, The Night Walker, A Very Woman

This is the seventh volume of Fredson Bowers' definitive series of critical, old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon.

Francis Beaumont (Author), John Fletcher (Author), Fredson Bowers (Edited by)

9780521060462, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 February 2008

752 pages
21.5 x 14 x 4 cm, 0.853 kg

This is the seventh volume in a ten-volume series of the critical old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical principles. This volume contains the texts of six plays by Fletcher but two, Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen, include the collaborative efforts of Shakespeare. Each play is introduced by a discussion of the text, has variant readings in footnotes, and is followed by full textual notes and lists of press-variants, emendations of accidentals and historical collations.

Foreword
Henry VIII
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Wit at Several Weapons
The Nice Valour
The Night Walker
A Very Woman.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Plays, playscripts [DD]