The Merry Devil Of Edmonton 1608 Classic Reprint

Author : Peter Fabell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330262924
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Merry Devil of Edmonton written by Peter Fabell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Merry Devil of Edmonton: A Comedy Editions of the Play. The first edition now known of The Merry Devil of Edmonton was published in 1608; and as the play was only entered at Stationers' Hall in October of the previous year, we may reasonably infer that it had not before been printed. Other editions followed in 1612, 1617, 1626, 1631, and 1655. It was included in Dodsley's Old Plays, and has been reprinted in the subsequent editions of that collection. It also appeared in Miller's Ancient British Drama(1810). But by far the most scholarly and complete of modern editions is that of Warnke and Proescholdt (Halle, 1884), to whom I am largely indebted. Their edition is exhaustive as to the variations of the text and almost equally good on the bibliographical side of the introduction. The notes are less full. Date of Composition. The first known reference to the play is contained in the Blacke Book by T. M., 1604. This T. M., who is supposed to have been Thomas Middleton, quotes the title, and alludes to the comedy as an amusing one 'Give him leave to see The Merry Devil of Edmonton, 0r A Woman Kill'd with Kindness.' There is no specific internal evidence, for the storming of St Quentin's, alluded to in i. n. 24, is too early to be the basis of an argument. Tieck assigned it to the year 1600 because he believed it to be by Shakespeare, and thought that among Shakespeare's plays the one which had most in common with it was The Merry Wives of Windsor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.