{"product_id":"the-plays-of-john-heywood-9780859913195","title":"The Plays of John Heywood","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe series is performing an important service by providing fully annotated editions of Tudor humanists and playwrights in the original Tudor English, with glossaries and listing of textual variants and doubtful readings.  COMPARATIVE DRAMA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e`A first-rate edition that substantially advances the cause of scholarship.'\u003c\/i\u003e COMPARATIVE DRAMA\u003cbr\u003eFirst complete and fully annotated collection of John Heywood's plays in the original language. It makes possible a reevaluation ofhis remarkable achievement as actor-playwright and an appreciation of his lively contribution to the English language. In all their experimental variety the comedies are seen to have the stamp of an idiosyncratic, theatricalintelligence coupled with a surprising seriousness and Heywood emerges as a resourceful apologist for traditional Catholic doctrine in a time of Reformation. In arguing for a new chronology, the editors suggest that Henry VIII'sservant and entertainer was capable of refreshing irreverence and political daring.\u003cbr\u003e Contents: \u003ci\u003eWitty and Witles, Johan Johan, The Pardoner and theFrere, The Foure PP, A Play of Love, The Play of the Wether\u003c\/i\u003e. Notes.Appendices: Verses from a lost Play of Reason, Translation of \u003ci\u003e\u003clafarce du past\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eRICHARD AXTON is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and University lecturer in English. PETER HAPPÉis the former Principal of Barton PeverilSixth-Form College.\u003c\/lafarce\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Richard Axton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280771297531,"sku":"9780859913195","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859913195_c35b4e4a-2754-496a-834d-df83f5c4a39f.jpg?v=1772483203","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-plays-of-john-heywood-9780859913195","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}