The Works of William Congreve

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-920254-6
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 2262 Seiten, three volume set, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 3515 g

The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William Congreve for more than twenty years, until his sudden death in 1999. This was a task he had taken over from Herbert Davis, to whom this edition is dedicated. During that time McKenzie uncovered new verse and letters, collated Congreve's texts, recorded their complicated textual history, constructed appendices that shed light on the
dramatic context in which Congreve worked, and examined how his contemporaries received Congreve's work. More importantly, McKenzie has convincingly re-evaluated Congreve's works and life to transform our image of the man and his reputation.

McKenzie here follows the editorial practice suggested in two early editions of the Works published by Congreve's friend, the bookseller Jacob Tonson, in 1710 and 1719. These three volumes follow a plan similar to that in the Tonson edition, with The Old Batchelor, The Double-Dealer, and Love for Love collected in the first, a central volume with The Way of the World, and a final volume with Congreve's novel Incognita, some of his prose
works, letters, and later verse. In each case, Congreve's work is left to speak for itself, unencumbered by intrusive notes, textual apparatus, or collations, which are gathered instead near the end of each volume.

This edition will be an invaluable resource for scholars for many years to come. It is a monument to McKenzie's own scholarship as well as to the integrity of William Congreve.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of literature and theatre

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mckenzie, Donald

McKenzie, D. F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume I
Congreve's Preface
Plays: The Old Batchelor, The Double-Dealer, and Love for Love
Music: The Old Batchelor, The Double-Dealer, and Love for Love
Commentary:The Old Batchelor, The Double-Dealer, and Love for Love
Robert D. Hume and Judith Milhous: Early Performers
Acknowledgements
Textual Introduction
Note on this Edition
Early Editions and Variant Readings: The Old Batchelor, The Double-Dealer, and Love for Love
Abbreviations and Works Frequently Cited
Volume II
Plays, Masque, Opera: The Mourning Bride, The Way of the World, The Judgment of Paris, Semele
Poems: Poems upon several Occasions, Songs from Plays, Miscellaneous Poems
Music: The Mourning Bride, The Way of the World, The Judgment of Paris, Semele, and the Songs
Commentary: The Mourning Bride, The Way of the World, The Judgment of Paris, Semele, Poems upon several Occasions, Songs from Plays, Miscellaneous Poems
Early Editions and Variant Readings: The Mourning Bride, The Way of the World, The Judgment of Paris, Semele, Poems upon several Occasions
Abbreviations and Works Frequently Cited
Volume III
Prose Writings: Incognita: Or, Love and duty Reconcil'd, Concerning Humour in Comedy, Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations, &c., Tatler 292, Dedication of Dryden's Dramatick Works, The Game of Quadrille. An Allegory
Letters
Commentary: Prose Writings, Letters
Early Editions and Variant Readings: Prose Writings, Letters
Attributions
Biographical Summary
Allusions
Congreve's Library
An Iconographical Checklist
Abbreviations and Works Frequently Cited

Über Autor(innen)

D. F. McKenzie was the leading bibliographer of his generation, and his Panizzi Lectures on 'Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts' revolutionized Anglo-American approaches to bibliography and the history of the book. He was a most stimulating and influential teacher: at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he was Professor of English Language and Literature 1969-87, and in Oxford, as Lyell Reader in Bibliography and as Professor of Bibliography and Textual
Criticism. He was the driving force in the planning of the multi-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. The McKenzie Trust was established after his death to promote excellence in teaching and research and there is an annual McKenzie Lecture in Oxford in
June.