The Best Plays Of The Old Dramatists: Philip Massinger, Thomas Otway & James Shirley
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: good/fair for age. Worn and sunned boards. Some bumping on spines and corners. Hinges cracked; no loose pages. Thomas Otway - newspaper clipping on fep; last ad page and page 85.
Three titans of the English stage — Philip Massinger, Thomas Otway, and James Shirley — are gathered in this magnificent trio of volumes from the celebrated Mermaid Series, The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists, each edited by a distinguished Victorian literary scholar. Massinger's commanding moral dramas, Otway's heartbreaking tragedies of passion and betrayal, and Shirley's elegant comedies of manners together paint a rich and turbulent portrait of England's golden age of theatre, spanning the Jacobean to the Caroline eras. Each unexpurgated edition presents the playwrights' works in their full, unaltered form — a bold editorial commitment that distinguished the Mermaid Series from its more squeamish contemporaries. Edited respectively by Arthur Symons, Roden Noel, and Edmund Gosse — three of the most formidable literary minds of the late nineteenth century — these volumes are both scholarly achievements and passionate acts of critical rescue, restoring neglected masterworks to their rightful place in the canon. The Mermaid Series as a whole stands as one of the great monuments of Victorian literary scholarship, championing the brilliance of pre-Restoration drama with infectious enthusiasm and rigorous erudition. Whether read as individual volumes or as a set, these books invite the reader to rediscover a world of theatrical genius that still crackles with wit, pathos, and raw human drama — a world that, once entered, is impossible to leave.
Author: Arthur Symons, Roden Noel, Edmund Gosse
Format: Hardback
Published: 1887, Mermaid Series
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: good/fair for age. Worn and sunned boards. Some bumping on spines and corners. Hinges cracked; no loose pages. Thomas Otway - newspaper clipping on fep; last ad page and page 85.
Three titans of the English stage — Philip Massinger, Thomas Otway, and James Shirley — are gathered in this magnificent trio of volumes from the celebrated Mermaid Series, The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists, each edited by a distinguished Victorian literary scholar. Massinger's commanding moral dramas, Otway's heartbreaking tragedies of passion and betrayal, and Shirley's elegant comedies of manners together paint a rich and turbulent portrait of England's golden age of theatre, spanning the Jacobean to the Caroline eras. Each unexpurgated edition presents the playwrights' works in their full, unaltered form — a bold editorial commitment that distinguished the Mermaid Series from its more squeamish contemporaries. Edited respectively by Arthur Symons, Roden Noel, and Edmund Gosse — three of the most formidable literary minds of the late nineteenth century — these volumes are both scholarly achievements and passionate acts of critical rescue, restoring neglected masterworks to their rightful place in the canon. The Mermaid Series as a whole stands as one of the great monuments of Victorian literary scholarship, championing the brilliance of pre-Restoration drama with infectious enthusiasm and rigorous erudition. Whether read as individual volumes or as a set, these books invite the reader to rediscover a world of theatrical genius that still crackles with wit, pathos, and raw human drama — a world that, once entered, is impossible to leave.