1st Edition

The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, Volume III The Late Plays

Edited By Stephen Bernard, Claudine van Hensbergen Copyright 2017
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, he is the ‘lost Augustan’. His plays are important both for the way they address the political and social concerns of the day and for reflecting a period in which the theatre was in crisis. This edition sets out to demonstrate Rowe’s mastery of... Read more

Introduction to The Tragedy of Jane Shore and The Tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey by Claudine van Hensbergen

Publication history and textual note to The Tragedy of Jane Shore and The Tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey by Claudine van Hensbergen

The Tragedy of Jane Shore edited by Claudine van Hensbergen

The Tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey edited by Claudine van Hensbergen

Appendix A: Curll’s additions to The Tragedy Jane Shore by Claudine van Hensbergen

Appendix B: epilogues to The Tragedy Jane Shore by Claudine van Hensbergen

Appendix C: the performance history of the late period plays by Claudine van Hensbergen

Appendix D: music to the late plays by Joe Lockwood

Textual apparatus of the late period plays by Claudine van Hensbergen

Biography

Stephen Bernard, Claudine van Hensbergen

"[T]he quality of the editorial work is uniformly excellent. The edition also includes a range of appendices containing a wealth of supplementary material including performance listings, prologues and epilogues, and, notably, all extant vocal music for Rowe’s dramas. The scores, beautifully edited by Joe Lockwood, are a significant contribution to our understanding of Rowe’s plays as the importance of music in Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama is often overlooked."

"…the very real contribution of this edition… illuminates Rowe’s literary career and, for the first time, establishes a scholarly text of his works."

- Jean L. Marsden, Review of English Studies