A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q1662)
| dc.contributor.author | Udall, Joanna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-15T10:31:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-15T10:31:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1991 | |
| dc.identifier | ONIX_20241115_9781839546693_32 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 09570322 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94714 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Credited on its first title page to William Shakespeare and William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin continues to provoke speculation about its place in the Shakespeare ‘Apocrypha’. The play is an imaginative re-working of the story of Merlin the Magician and his part in the struggle against the Saxon invasion of Britain. It contains not only scenes of love, war, and court politics, but a devil, a clown, and an unusual number of spectacular stage effects. This edition seeks to provide contexts for the play’s diverse elements (chronicle history, romance, spectacle, and comedy), and considers its relationships with a wide variety of texts from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English prose Brut to Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. This book, originally published in paperback in 1991 under the ISBN 978-0-947623-34-0, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme. | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | MHRA Texts and Dissertations | |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers | |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DSV Vatican | |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MR 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100::3MRB Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050::3MRBF c 2010 to c 2019 | |
| dc.title | A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q1662) | |
| dc.type | book | |
| oapen.identifier.doi | 10.59860/td.b48ecfa | |
| oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | df09d692-f384-443e-9989-84a1510c8d3d | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781839546693 | |
| oapen.imprint | Texts and Translations | |
| oapen.series.number | 31 | |
| oapen.pages | 258 | |
| oapen.place.publication | Cambridge |
