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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 List of illustrations 7 General editors’ preface 8 Acknowledgements 9 Abbreviations and references 10 Introduction 14 Romance and Conquest in Early Modern England 16 The Plays 22 The Texts 55 The Comical History of Alphonsus, King of Aragon by Robert Greene 66 The Tragedy of Soliman and Perseda by Thomas Kyd 137 The Four Prentices of London by Thomas Heywood 217 Index 307 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2018,ISBN:9781526107930,Language:English,OCLC:1065537521 This volume brings together three little-known works by key playwrights from the late sixteenth-century golden age of English drama. All three convey the public theatre’s fascination with travel and adventure through the popular genre of heroic romance, while reflecting the contemporaries’ wide range of responses to cross-cultural contacts with the Muslim East and the Mediterranean challenges posed by the Ottoman empire. The volume presents the first modern-spelling editions of the three plays, with extensive annotations catering for specialised scholars while also making the texts accessible to students and theatre-goers. A detailed introduction discusses issues of au

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Author

Niayesh, Ladan

Publisher

Manchester University Press, NBN International [Distributor

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526107947

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Drama, Literary Criticism