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Informationen zum Autor Charles Edelman is an Honorary Senior Fellow at Edith Cowan University. Klappentext Sir Thomas Stukeley, the notorious English courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier, died at the Battle of Alcazar in Morocco in 1578, while serving in the army of King Sebastian of Portugal. This volume comprises the first modern-spelling, annotated edition of two plays in which he is a major character: George Peele's 'The Battle of Alcazar' (c.1588), and the anonymous 'Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley' (c.1596).In his extensive introduction and commentary, Charles Edelman discusses the plays' authorship, their many textual problems, and what they reveal about Elizabethan performance practices. He also challenges most of the traditional assumptions about them. This edition shows that both works, long held to be unperformable, are instead fascinating and worthwhile representatives of the most exciting age in the history of the theatre. Zusammenfassung The first modern-spelling! annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley! the notorious courtier! pirate! adventurer and soldier is a major character -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis General editors' prefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and referencesIntroductionSir Thomas Stukeley'The Battle of the Three Kings''The Battle of Alcazar'Authorship and dateTextThe plotThe play in performanceThe date of the playSourcesThe play'Mislike me not for my complexion''The Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas StukeleyAuthorshipVersificationThe playThe African sequence and the order of the final scenesConclusionNotes to the introduction'The Battle of Alcazar'Editions and textual conventionsList of charactersThe play'The Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas StukeleyEditions, textual conventionsList of charactersThe playAppendix I: 'The Battle of Alcazar': Pisano, Jonas and HerculesAppendix II: 'The Battle of Alcazar': The Irish BishopAppendix III: 'Captain Thomas Stukeley': Alternate scene 7...
