Campaspe
One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw light on the plays and to offer views of the plays that have been neglected in the past.
Print Book, English, 1991
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1991
xx, 307 pages ; 22 cm.
9780719015502, 9780719031007, 0719015502, 0719031001
1029486883
Introduction to "Campaspe"; the text; date and authorship; sources and traditions; dramaturgy; staging; performance; introduction to "Sappho and Phao"; the text; authorship and date; sources and traditions; allegory; the comedy of courtship; the language of the play; dramaturgy and staging. Appendices: a collation of variants between Quarto 1 and Quarto 2 of 1584; variants newly introduced into Quarto 3 of 1591; the songs in "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao".
Sappho and Phao / Lyly, John, 1554?-1606