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Full Description
This Malone Society edition of Barnabe Barnes's The Devil's Charter (1607) is intended to supplement the important edition, published in 1904, of the play by R.B. McKerrow, the great editor of the works of Thomas Nashe. The new edition is based on a fresh examination of the twenty-three known copies of the quarto, which exhibit marked differences in relation to stop-press correction. The Introduction considers the play's printing history, its date and authorship, its performance, and later history. Particular attention is paid to the possibility that Robert Armin had a hand in several scenes in the play and to how Barnes's play may have come to be acted before King James I. Barnes is shown to have been familiar with Shakespeare's plays and, in particular, to have borrowed elements from Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and All's Well that Ends Well.
Contents
Introduction
The Quarto
George Eld
Stop-Press Corrections
Setting the Play
Printing the Play
Stage Directions
Speech-Prefixes
Skeleton Formes and Type Shortages
Compositors and the Nature of the Copy
Date and authorship
Revision and a Second Hand
Performance
Later History
Modern Editions
This Edition
List of Roles
Obscured and Damaged Readings
Typographical Variants
Appendix I: Library of Congress Copy, Sig. p2r l
Appendix II: Shakespeare's Globe Copy, SIGS B3v-B4r
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