The Faithful Virgins : Volume 104 Paperback / softback
by E. Polwhele
Edited by Ann Hollinshead Hurley
Part of the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
The first-ever print edition of a play by one of the first women playwrights in England. E. Polwhele (c. 1651-c. 1691) was one of the first women to write for the stage in Restoration London.
This book presents the first printed edition of Polwhele’s first play, The Faithful Virgins, which until now has existed only in an unsigned manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
A tragicomedy apparently performed in London by the Duke's Company ca. 1669–1671, The Faithful Virgins is altogether different in tone from Polwhele's later, better-known prose comedy, The Frolicks; or, The Lawyer Cheated (1671).
The introduction to this modern-spelling edition of The Faithful Virgins discusses the play in terms of radical changes in English stage practices following the restoration of the monarchy after England’s civil war and situates Polwhele’s play within the social and political life of seventeenth-century London.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:93 pages, 3 color plates, 5 halftones
- Publisher:Iter Press
- Publication Date:21/12/2023
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- ISBN:9781649590978
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:93 pages, 3 color plates, 5 halftones
- Publisher:Iter Press
- Publication Date:21/12/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781649590978
