The Maid's Tragedy: Beaumont and Fletcher

Generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, The Maid's Tragedy then disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered and very successful Victorian adaptation) until recent years, when major companies have rediscovered its appeal.

In this fully annotated edition, the editor has given careful attention to the sense of the lines, the stage action and the verse. Many new readings, as well as improvements in stage directions and lineation, are either introduced or proposed.

The introduction throws new light on Beaumont and Fletcher's use of the three known sources (two of them previously neglected) of incidents in the play, gives the fullest available account of its stage history and provides a sympathetic interpretation of the play as a romantic tragedy.

Author: T. W. Craik
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 03/11/1999
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9780719030987
ISBN10: 0719030986
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Drama
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Renaissance

About the Author

T. W. Craik is Professor of English at the University of Durham