Books in the The Revels Plays series

Usually considered to be John Marston's masterpiece, "The Malcontent" is one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre - complex in genre, structure and language. This edition has notes designed for modern undergraduate use.

The first single-volume edition of this play in almost 500 years, widely rated by critics as Philip Massinger's best work -- .

This edition seeks to evaluate the play not merely as a literary text but as a drama for a particular company within a particular theatre. The introduction explores the degree of originality in Marston's dramatic techniques and establishes him as a leading innovator in the dramaturgy of his day.

The New Inn is one of the most neglected of Jonson's plays which is now finding a new and appreciative audience. The spelling has been modernised and the text updated and corrected for this paperback edition. There is also a critical introduction, helpful appendices and a commentary which explains difficult or significant passages within the play. -- .

This edition of George Chapman's tragedy is based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. The editor believes that the earlier text gives a more certain indication of Chapman's intentions and he has supported this view in his introduction.

In the REVELS PLAYS series, this book contains the text of the play and also its history and background together with a critical interpretation that takes account of its social, historical and theatrical context. It examines the relationship between the three authors and the problem of their collaboration. Aimed at students of Renaissance drama.

John Lyly was the master of the private theatre stage in the 1570s and 1580s, and this play represents his individual Euphuistic style. It is a love comedy, mimicking Queen Elizabeth's court, and retelling an ancient legend of the prolonged sleep of the man with whom the moon fell in love.

Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus' wise rule with an English polity dominated by malice, intrigue and envy. This text examines these different strands interwoven by Jonson.