
Henry Fielding - Plays
Volume I, 1728-1731
Henry Fielding(Author)
Thomas Lockwood(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 18. March 2004
Book
Hardback
808 pages
978-0-19-925789-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first of three volumes representing the only modern edition of Fielding's dramatic works. Most of these plays have not appeared in print for a century, and never previously in edited form. Fielding came to the novel-writing for which he is best known after an important first career in professional theatre. He wrote twenty-eight plays, including comedies, satiric extravaganzas, and ballad operas. He was the leading playwright of his generation, an experimentalist and entrepreneur in a cheerfully mocking form of drama journalistically devoted to contemporary experience, culture, and politics. This volume presents the first seven of these plays in a critical unmodernized edition based on the original texts, with explanatory notes and commentary on sources, stage history, and critical reception, as well as appendices accounting for textual variation, bibliography, and musical sources.
Reviews / Votes
An enterprise like the Wesleyan Fielding-a tremendous achievement by any reasonable evaluation-will be immensely useful to any critic or scholar trying to understand Fielding's outlook and the contexts in which his works were read. * Robert D. Hume, Huntington Library Quarterly * Ambitious in conception and immaculate in execution, this volume raises the bar for the scholarly editing of Restoration and eighteenth-century drama * Tom Keymer, MLR * ...a distinguished achievement of sensitive scholarship. * TLS, 21/01/2005 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftone frontispiece; numerous music examples
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 46 mm
Weight
1381 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-925789-8 (9780199257898)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Lockwood, Thomas (Professor of English, University of Washington, USA)
Author
Editor
, Professor of English at the University of Washington.
Content
General Introduction ; PLAYS ; Love in Several Masques ; The Temple Beau ; The Author's Farce ; Tom Thumb ; The Coffee-House Politician ; The Tragedy of Tragedies ; The Letter-Writers ; APPENDICES ; Music ; Word-Division ; Critical Apparatus ; Bibliography