The Staple of News
This edition offers a modernised text based on a fresh collation of the 1631-40 folio, together with an account of the play's printing history, a full commentary which sets Jonson's art in its intellectual and social context, and an introduction which seeks to do justice to the play's braod scope...
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This edition offers a modernised text based on a fresh collation of the 1631-40 folio, together with an account of the play's printing history, a full commentary which sets Jonson's art in its intellectual and social context, and an introduction which seeks to do justice to the play's braod scope and to suggest something of its theatrical potential.Author Biography: Anthony Parr is a professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780719059063 (0719059062)
Publish date: June 10th 2000
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English