The Revels Plays #: Old Fortunatus

By Thomas Dekker

The Revels Plays #: Old Fortunatus
David McInnis
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Paperback
h216 x 138mm - 272pg
13 Jul 2021 UK
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9781526156051
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With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker' s Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern journeying play. The adventures of Fortunatus and his sons, aided by a magical purse and wishing-hat, offers the period' s most overt celebration of the pleasures of travel, as well as a sustained critique of the dangers of intemperance and prodigality. Written following a period of financial difficulty for Dekker, the play is also notable for its fascination with the symbolic, mercantile and ethical uses of gold. This Revels Plays edition is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Old Fortunatus. It offers scholarly discussion of the play' s performance and textual history, including attention to the German version printed and performed in the early seventeenth century. It provides a long overdue critical reappraisal of this unjustly neglected play.

Family of Love, The: By Lording Barry
Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid: By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger
Old Fortunatus: By Thomas Dekker

' McInnis has produced an admirable, rigorous, and reliable scholarly edition. He has given criticism a chance to match this editorial achievement with insights of comparable height and nuance. ' Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme -- .
David McInnis is the Gerry Higgins Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia
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ISBN-13: 9781526156051
Published: 13 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 272

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