The Fair Maid of the West - Couverture souple

Heywood, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803273304 ISBN 13 : 9780803273306

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1967

Synopsis

Thomas Heywood (1574?-1641), a professional English actor and one of the most prolific playwrights of the seventeenth century, is most famous for his plays written about contemporary English life.

The Fair Maid of the West recalls typical Elizabethan bourgeois literature, but its primary relationship is with all adventure narratives regardless of their era. This romantic comedy features vivid pictures of English seaport life and travel to exotic locales by English sea captains. The plot is filled with pirate battles, a shipwreck, courageous adventures, and devoted love. If boredom is the perennial disability of men, adventure stories are the perennial therapy, operating as a restorative by encouraging an intermission in the ordinary powers and interests of the mind.

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À propos de l?auteur

Editor Robert K. Turner Jr. provides extensive critical commentary about the author and the play, textual notes, and variant substantive readings.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 1967
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803273304
• ISBN 13: 9780803273306
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 213
• Éditeur: Turner Robert K.
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