Philaster: or Love Lies a-Bleeding Or, Love Lies A-Bleeding by Beaumont and Fletcher

by Gurr, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780719064852
• ISBN10: 0719064856
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-04
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

Written in 1609 for Shakespeare's company,Philasteris one of the most ambitious works of literary collaboration ever attempted. Whereas only the lowest potboiling third of the dramatic repertory of the time was produced by multiple authorship, this hybrid drama by a pair of young dramatists was also a new type of tragicomedy. Its success led the play to be performed for over thirty years and made Beaumont and Fletcher the only authors besides Shakespeare and Jonson to be granted the accolade of a posthumous collection of their plays in Folio. Andrew Gurr's substantial commentary and notes have never been surpassed since the first publication of the edition and joins the list of over thirty plays currently published in The Revels Plays.

Author Biography

Andrew Gurr is Professor of English at the University of Reading and Director of Globe Research at the Globe Theatre.

Table of Contents

GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE	v
PREFACE	xi
ABBREVIATIONS	xiii
CHRONOLOGY	xvii
INTRODUCTION
1. The Authors	xix
2. The Date	xxvi
3. Sources	xxix
4. The Blackfriars and The King's Men	xxxv
5. Cymbeline and Philaster	xlv
6. The Political Concerns	li
7. The Play	lix
8. Stage History	lxxi
9. The Text	lxxiv
PHILASTER
APPENDICES
A. The Variant Sections of QI	123	(9)
B. Lineation	132	(5)
INDEX TO ANNOTATIONS	137