Galatea Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition
by John Lyly; Leah Scragg (Editor)
From the rear cover
Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch and engaged with matters particularly pertinent to the Elizabethan state, Galatea might be seen, paradoxically, as a parable for our time. Inhabiting a world threatened with inundation and engaged in a process of change, the characters find themselves locked in a series of transgressive situations that speak directly to contemporary experience and twenty-first-century critical concerns. Same-sex relationships, shifts of authority, and the destabilization of meaning all lend the drama a surprising modernity, making it at once the most accessible of Lyly's plays and the one most frequently performed today.
Specifically designed for the student reader, Leah Scragg's edition offers a range of perspectives on the work. An extensive introduction locates the play in the context of the Elizabethan court and the performance of plays by juvenile troupes, opening a window upon a kind of drama very different from that of more familiar sixteenth-century dramatists such as Marlowe and Shakespeare. The latter's indebtedness to the work is fully documented, while detailed critical and performance histories afford an insight into the susceptibility of the work to reinterpretation. Newly edited from the earliest witness, the quarto of 1592, and richly annotated for the modern reader, this edition allows access to the work of a writer who was a central figure in the cultural life of late sixteenth-century England and is still capable of speaking to audiences today.Details
- Title Galatea
- Author John Lyly; Leah Scragg (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 115
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Date 2012-10-30
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780719088056 / 0719088054
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.5 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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