The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 16, Part 3: Poetical Works: Part 3. Plays (Two volume set)

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Poetry in its many guises is at the center of Coleridge's multifarious interests, and this new edition of his complete poetical works marks the pinnacle of the Bollingen Collected Coleridge. The three parts of Volume 16 confirm and expand the sense of the Coleridge who has emerged over the past half-century, with implications for English Romantic writing as a whole, it will be of interest to historians and editorial theorists, as well as readers and students of poetry. They represent a work of truly monumental importance. Coleridge's plays form a vital part of his poetic achievement. This part covers all of them - twelve altogether, including collaborations, adaptations, and plays left unrevised or in note form. It considers his drama translations as well. Coleridge's practical engagement with theatre over a span of twenty years influenced his approach to other, lyric forms as well as, for example, his assessments of Shakespeare and of public taste. As in the first and second parts, all known manuscript, printed, and annotated versions have been collated to produce reading texts, and much new information, historical as well as textual, is presented in the commentary. The index cove

J.C.C. Mays is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin. He has published on English Romantic and Irish Modernist writers and is currently editing Diarmuid and Grania for the Cornell Yeats. Until her retirement, Joyce Crick was for many years Senior Lecturer at University College London, and is now Special Professor in Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham. In 2000 she was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for her translation of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams.

Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers