Henry Fielding - Plays

Volume I, 1728-1731
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-925789-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 808 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1381 g

This is the first of three volumes representing the only modern edition of Fielding's dramatic works. Most of these plays have not appeared in print for a century, and never previously in edited form. Fielding came to the novel-writing for which he is best known after an important first career in professional theatre. He wrote twenty-eight plays, including comedies, satiric extravaganzas, and ballad operas. He was the leading playwright of his generation, an experimentalist and entrepreneur in a cheerfully mocking form of drama journalistically devoted to contemporary experience, culture, and politics. This volume presents the first seven of these plays in a critical unmodernized edition based on the original texts, with explanatory notes and commentary on sources, stage history, and critical reception, as well as appendices accounting for textual variation, bibliography, and musical sources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fielding, Henry

Lockwood, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- General Introduction

- Plays

- Love in Several Masques

- The Temple Beau

- The Author's Farce

- Tom Thumb

- The Coffee-House Politician

- The Tragedy of Tragedies

- The Letter-Writers

- Appendices

- Music

- Word-Division

- Critical Apparatus

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Lockwood, Thomas (Professor of English, University of Washington, USA)