Philaster: Or, Love Lies A-bleedingMethuen, 1969 - 142 pages Written in 1609 for Shakespeare's company, "Philaster" is one of the most ambitious works of literary collaboration ever attempted. Whereas only the lowest potboiling third of the dramatic repertory of the time was produced by multiple authorship, this hybrid drama by a pair of young dramatists was also a new type of tragicomedy. Its success led the play to be performed for over thirty years and made Beaumont and Fletcher the only authors besides Shakespeare and Jonson to be granted the accolade of a posthumous collection of their plays in Folio. Andrew Gurr's substantial commentary and notes have never been surpassed since the first publication of the edition and joins the list of over thirty plays currently published in The Revels Plays. |
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Page lxiii
... Arethusa and covertly in Bellario . Arethusa's prayer before her declaration of love to Philaster looks to a happy ending in its hint of innocent double - think , submissive to the will of the gods whose interest it is to see her love ...
... Arethusa and covertly in Bellario . Arethusa's prayer before her declaration of love to Philaster looks to a happy ending in its hint of innocent double - think , submissive to the will of the gods whose interest it is to see her love ...
Page lxiv
... Arethusa's virtue or the course of justice - nor in the comic ridicule it throws on Megra's accusation , but in the ironies first of Dion's having been led into falsely testifying to Philaster against his own daughter , which in its own ...
... Arethusa's virtue or the course of justice - nor in the comic ridicule it throws on Megra's accusation , but in the ironies first of Dion's having been led into falsely testifying to Philaster against his own daughter , which in its own ...
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... Arethusa ] The heroine's name , like Galatea's , comes from Theocritus . Arethusa was a Nereid , guardian of a fountain in Sicily , whose waters were so pure they gave longevity to the men and cattle drinking them . A spring known as ...
... Arethusa ] The heroine's name , like Galatea's , comes from Theocritus . Arethusa was a Nereid , guardian of a fountain in Sicily , whose waters were so pure they gave longevity to the men and cattle drinking them . A spring known as ...
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Philaster: Or, Love Lies A-Bleeding by Beaumont and Fletcher Francis Beaumont,John Fletcher Limited preview - 2003 |
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