The Works of John Webster
An Old-Spelling Critical Edition

Third and final volume of the critical original-spelling edition of The Works of John Webster.

David Gunby (Edited by), David Carnegie (Edited by), MacDonald P. Jackson (Edited by)

9780521260619, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 January 2007

576 pages, 19 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.8 x 3.2 cm, 0.902 kg

'… a wealth of material and scholarly discussion as well as re-presenting texts … found to be both intriguing and enlightening insights into the early modern playing environment.' Andrew Hiscock, MLR

This is the third and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster. It contains the final complete play in the edition, the City comedy Anything for a Quiet Life, as well as Webster's spectacular Lord Mayor's pageant Monuments of Honour and his Induction and additions to John Marston's The Malcontent. Webster's non-dramatic work is also included: the deeply felt verse elegy to Prince Henry entitled A Monumental Column, his various shorter poems, including verses for the engraving of The Progeny of … Prince James, and the thirty-two New Characters added to the sixth edition of Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters. This Cambridge critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays, poetry and prose, and incorporates the most recent editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays, and new critical methods and textual theory.

The Webster canon: a reassessment
The Webster canon: a revised chronological listing
Anything for a Quiet Life
Monuments of Honour
Webster's Induction and Additions to The Malcontent
A Monumental Column
Shorter Poems
New Characters.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB], Literature: history & criticism [DS]