By: David Carnegie, MacDonald P. Jackson, David Gunby (Editor)

Hardcover

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This is the third and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster. It contains the final complete play in the edition, the City comedy Anything for a Quiet Life, as well as Webster's spectacular Lord Mayor's pageant Monuments of Honour and his Induction and additions to John Marston's The Malcontent. Webster's non-dramatic work is also included: the deeply felt verse elegy to Prince Henry entitled A Monumental Column, his various shorter poems, including verses for the engraving of The Progeny of ... Prince James, and the thirty-two New Characters added to the sixth edition of Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters. This Cambridge critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays, poetry and prose, and incorporates the most recent editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays, and new critical methods and textual theory.

"...this final volume, which could have seemed like a mere footnote to Webster's great dramatic works, sustains our interest in and enthusiasm for a playwright too often characterized, even today, as a purveyor of mere Gothic frissons illuminated by brilliant flashes of charnel-house verse." -Peter Malin, Early Theater

List of illustrations	p. IX
General preface to Volume three	p. XI
General textual preface	p. XIII
Acknowledgements	p. XV
List of abbreviations	p. XVII
The Webster canon: a reassessment	p. XXX
The Webster canon: a revised chronological listing	p. XL
Anything For a Quiet Life
Date	p. 3
Critical introduction	p. 4
Theatrical introduction	p. 24
Textual introduction	p. 42
Anything for a Quiet Life	p. 57
Press variants	p. 132
Lineation	p. 133
Commentary	p. 136
Sources	p. 218
Monuments of Honour
Introduction	p. 223
Textual introduction	p. 251
Monuments of Honour	p. 253
Commentary	p. 267
Webster's Induction and Additions to the Malcontent
Introduction	p. 297
Textual introduction	p. 309
Webster's Induction to Marston's The Malcontent	p. 315
Webster's Additions to Marston's The Malcontent	p. 323
Press variants	p. 334
Commentary	p. 336
A Monumental Column
Date	p. 359
Introduction	p. 360
Textual introduction	p. 370
A Monumental Column	p. 373
Press variants	p. 385
Commentary	p. 387
Shorter Poems
Introduction	p. 407
Textual introduction	p. 415
To...Anthony Munday	p. 419
Ode	p. 419
To...Thomas Heywood	p. 420
To...Henry Cockeram	p. 421
The Progeny of...Prince James	p. 422
Press variants	p. 426
Commentary	p. 429
New Characters
Date	p. 439
Introduction	p. 440
Textual introduction	p. 452
New Characters	p. 459
Press variants	p. 486
Commentary	p. 487
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ISBN: 9780521260619
ISBN-10: 0521260612
Series: The Works of John Webster
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 576
Published: 25th January 2007
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2  x 3.2
Weight (kg): 0.902