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In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. John Banks: His Life and Works -- II. The Unhappy Favourite: Commentary and Stage History -- III. The Source: The Secret History of the Most Renown'd Q. Elizabeth, and E. of Essex. By a Person of Quality -- IV. The Ring Episode: A Study in the Development of a Tradition -- The Unhappy Favourite: Facsimile of the 1682 Quarto, Slightly Reduced -- Notes to the Text of the Unhappy Favourite -- Appendix: Eighteenth-Century Essex Plays -- Bibliography -- Index
Makes available a modern reprint of a good, restoration play with two claims to distinction - It was the first dramatic treatment of the Elizabeth and Essex theme in literature and it set the stage of the she-tragedy as a new type of drama