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FIVE STUART TRAGEDIES : (The World's Classics Series - #526)
by A. K. McIlwraith (Editor)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
London, UK: Oxford Univ Press, 1964. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Embossed dark blue linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF; price clipped w/trace shelfwear. First published 1953; this is the 1964 printing. This collection fills the gap between World's Classics Five Elizabethan Tragedies and Five Restoration Tragedies. These 5 plays, written between 1603 to 1640, in 497 pgs, are: 1, George Chapman's (c. 1559 -1634) 'Bussy D'Ambois'; 2, Francis Beaumont (1584 -1616) & John Fletcher's (1579 - 1625) 'The Maid's Tragedy'; 3, John Webster's (1580? - 1635) 'The Duchess of Malfi'; 4, Philip Massinger's (1583 - 1640) 'The Roman Actor'; and, 5, John Ford's (1586 - 1639) ''Tis Pity She's a Whore'. Spellings modernized, augmented w/footnotes facilitate reading. Fine copy.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000985
- Title
- FIVE STUART TRAGEDIES : (The World's Classics Series - #526)
- Author
- A. K. McIlwraith (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 3rd Printing
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Press
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- ENGLISH LITERATURE, DRAMA, TRAGEDIES, DRAMA-PLAY ANTHOLOGIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music; Opera;
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