Sir Thomas More By Anthony Munday and Others

by Gabrieli, Vittorio; Melchiori, Giorgio

• ISBN13: 9780719016325
• ISBN10: 0719016320
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-09-06
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This modern-spelling critical edition of a famous and controversial theatrical document from the Elizabethan age shows that Sir Thomas More is the best extant example of the genre of biographical history. Following a radical re-examination of the manuscript, this edition relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form, accounting in the collation and in the rejected or alternative passages at the end of the text for each single word or mark found in the manuscript. Particular attention is devoted to the use of sources not previously identified, most of which are reproduced in the appendices.

Author Biography

Vittorio Gabrielli was Professor at the University of Rome.

Giorgio Melchiori is Emeritus Professor of La Sapienza at the University of Rome.

Table of Contents

General Editors' Preface	vii
Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(1)
The manuscript	1	(2)
The original	3	(14)
Reconstruction of the original	3	(3)
The sources and the composition of the original	6	(5)
The date of the original	11	(1)
The authorship of the original	12	(5)
Tilney's hand	17	(3)
The additions	20	(8)
The hands	21	(3)
The sequence of composition	24	(2)
The date of the additions	26	(2)
The final version	28	(7)
Structure	29	(3)
More on stage	32	(1)
Later stage history	33	(2)
This edition	35	(20)
Table: This edition, Greg's edition and the manuscript	37	(4)
Notes to introduction	41	(14)
Sir Thomas More	55	(154)
REJECTED OR ALTERNATIVE PASSAGES	209	(18)
APPENDICES	227	(26)
A Holinshed	227	(15)
B Harpsfield	242	(3)
C Stapleton	245	(4)
D Foxe	249	(3)
E Harington	252	(1)
Glossarial Index to the Commentary	253