Author : Macdonald Pearman Jackson
Release : 1986-08-29
Genre : Literary Collections
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The Selected Plays of John Marston - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Selected Plays of John Marston write by Macdonald Pearman Jackson. This book was released on 1986-08-29. The Selected Plays of John Marston available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edition brings five of Marston's most interesting plays together in a readable and helpful form. They are collected with modern spelling, full commentaries, textual notes and introductions, in texts newly edited from the original quartos. A survey of criticism of Marston is included. The edition of Sophonisba (a play highly praised by T. S. Eliot) is the first modernised text to appear in one hundred years. Another textual innovation is the relegation to an appendix of Webster's obtrusive additions to The Malcontent. Marston's plays have enjoyed popular revivals in English theatres over the last decade, and the authors' commentary is designed to alert readers to theatrical effects. The playwright's language is elucidated here far more fully than in any other collection.