Pap with an Hatchet by John Lyly : An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition Hardback
by Leah Scragg
Part of the Revels Plays Companion Library series
Hardback
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The first fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of Lyly’s Pap with an Hatchet, this volume in the Revels Plays Companion Library series opens a window on the most neglected item in the Lylian canon. A response to a series of late sixteenth-century anti-episcopalian pamphlets issued under the pseudonym ‘Martin Marprelate’, Pap with an Hatchet seeks to beat Martin at his own game, employing all the devices deployed in the tracts to deride and subvert the Martinist position.
Written in a racy, colloquial style, and at variance in its format with twenty-first century printing conventions, the pamphlet has remained difficult to access for the modern reader, and it is this barrier to a fuller understanding that the present edition has been designed to overcome.
Re-edited from the earliest witnesses, brought into line with contemporary printing practice, richly annotated, and equipped with a substantial introduction, it enables a new insight into the witty interaction between the work and the Martinist tracts, the care underlying its composition, and the relish that Lyly brought to his task. -- .
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages, Illustrations, black & white
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2015
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- ISBN:9780719087387
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages, Illustrations, black & white
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780719087387
