Collections XVIII - Two Plays From the Decameron

Collections XVIII brings together the earliest texts of the first and last pre-Civil War plays to deal with Boccaccio's tragic story of the lovers, Gismond and Guiscardo: the Hargrave MS of Inner Temple tragedy, Gismond of Salern (1568), and the first ever printed edition of the 1620s manuscript play, Glausamond and Fidelia.

List of contents

Gismond of Salern (MS Hargrave 205), edited by Adam Barker, Ella Hawkins,
Margaret Sharratt, Rachel Stewart, Jan Tasker, Alexander Thom, Jennifer
Waghorn, Sara Marie Westh, and Martin Wiggins
Glausamond and Fidelia (MS CR136 B766), edited by Kirsten Inglis

About the author

Siobhan Keenan is Reader in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at De Montfort University

Summary

Collections XVIII brings together the earliest texts of the first and last pre-Civil War plays to deal with Boccaccio’s tragic story of the lovers, Gismond and Guiscardo: the Hargrave MS of Inner Temple tragedy, Gismond of Salern (1568), and the first ever printed edition of the 1620s manuscript play, Glausamond and Fidelia. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Siobhan Keenan
• Assisted by: Paul Dean (Editor), Siobhan Keenan (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781526152381
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5238-1
• No. of pages: 100
• Series: The Malone Society
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies