The Works of John Webster: Volume 2, The Devil's Law-Case; A Cure for a Cuckold; Appius and Virginia

Second volume of plays in this edition of the works of John Webster.

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

9780521035118, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 November 2007

680 pages, 12 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.3 x 3.2 cm, 0.892 kg

"This is an extremely satisfying edition. Eseentially a reference book, it will promote both scholarly and theatrical engagement with these other Webster plays." Sixteenth Century Journal Richard Grinnell, Marist College

This is the second volume to appear in the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster and includes The Devil's Law-Case, A Cure for a Cuckold and Appius and Virginia. This critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays; incorporates editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays; and employs alternative critical methods and textual theory. In particular, the edition integrates theatrical aspects of the plays with their bibliographical and literary features in a way not previously attempted in a scholarly edition of a Jacobean dramatist. The edition presents all of Webster's plays (with the exception of those collaborative plays already published in the Cambridge editions of Dekker, and Beaumont and Fletcher) and provides a brief biography, an account of Webster canon, illustrations, and critical and theatrical history of each play.

List of illustrations
General preface to Volume two
General textual preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
The Devil's Law-Case
A Cure for a Cuckold
Appius and Virginia
Corrigenda Volume one: music.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG], Theatre studies [AN]