The Maid's Tragedy: Beaumont and Fletcher

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Maid's Tragedy: Beaumont and Fletcher
Authors and Contributors      Edited by T. W. Craik
SeriesThe Revels Plays
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 240,Width 138
Category/GenreLiterary essays
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
ISBN/Barcode 9780719030987
ClassificationsDewey:822.3
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 11 March 1999
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, The Maid's Tragedy (1610-11) disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered and very successful Victorian adaptation) until recent years, when major companies have rediscovered its appeal. In this fully annotated edition, the editor has given careful attention to the sense of the lines, the stage action and the verse. Many new emendations of textual errors, as well as improvements in stage directions and lineation, are either introduced or proposed. The introduction explores Beaumont and Fletcher's use of the three known sources (two of them previously neglected) for incidents in the play, gives the fullest available account of its stage history, and provides a sympathetic interpretation of the play as a romantic tragedy. -- .

Author Biography

T. W. Craik is Professor of English at the University of Durham -- .