The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: Volume 8, The Queen of Corinth, The False One, Four Plays, or Moral Representations, in One, The Knight of Malta, The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt, The Custom of the Country

This is the eighth volume in a ten-volume series of the critical old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon.

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

9780521060486, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 April 2008

768 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 0.96 kg

This is the eighth 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 five plays and one composite Fours Plays in One, written by Fletcher and his collaborators, Nathan Field and Philip Massinger. 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.

The Queen of Corinth
The False One
Four Plays, or Moral Representations, in One
The Knight of Malta
The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
The Custom of the Country.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]