WORKS OF WILLIAM CONGREVE VOL 3 C

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-929746-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 859 g

INTRODUCTORY OFFER: £100.00
The first comprehensive scholarly edition of William Congreve's work
Represents more than twenty years' work of one of the twentieth century's greatest textual and literary scholars

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

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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)

Donald McKenzie, Formerly Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, University of Oxford