Devil''s Charter By Barnabe Barnes

This Malone Society edition of Barnabe Barnes's The Devil's Charter (1607) is intended to supplement the important edition, published in 1904, of the play by R.B. McKerrow, the great editor of the works of Thomas Nashe. The new edition is based on a fresh examination of the twenty-three known copies of the quarto, which exhibit marked differences in relation to stop-press correction. The Introduction considers the play's printing history, its date and authorship, its performance, and later history. Particular attention is paid to the possibility that Robert Armin had a hand in several scenes in the play and to how Barnes's play may have come to be acted before King James I. Barnes is shown to have been familiar with Shakespeare's plays and, in particular, to have borrowed elements from Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and All's Well that Ends Well.

About the author

G.R. Proudfoot was Professor of English at King's College London
H.R. Woudhuysen is Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford

Product details

• Assisted by: Richard Proudfoot (Editor), H R Woudhuysen (Editor), Proudfoot Richard (Editor), Woudhuysen H. R. (Editor)
• Authors: Richard Woudhuysen Proudfoot
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 03.12.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9781526152398
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5239-8
• Pages: 182
• Series: The Malone Society
• Subjects: Revision, Shakespeare, Devils, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Performance History, Jacobean drama, Robert Armin, authorship studies, Barnabe Barnes, stop-press correction, R.B. McKerrow