Generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, "The Maid's Tragedy" (1610-11) disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered and very successful Victorian adaptation) until recent years, when major companies have rediscovered its appeal. In this fully annotated edition, the editor has given careful attention to the sense of the lines, the stage action and the verse. Many new emendations of textual errors, as well as improvements in stage directions and lineation, are either introduced or proposed. The introduction explores Beaumont and Fletcher's use of the three known sources (two of them previously neglected) for incidents in the play, gives the fullest available account of its stage history, and provides a sympathetic interpretation of the play as a romantic tragedy.
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The essential edition of an essential play
30 Jun 2007
By Dr. Richard M. Price
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A Maid's Tragedy is one of the most effective of all Jacobean plays. Craik tells us that `it is only in the theatre that its power can be fully appreciated,' but in fact it reads extremely well, with its limited cast and uncluttered dramatic action. What puts it above most other revenge tragedies of its period is not profundity (as in Hamlet or The Broken Heart) but extraordinary dramatic invention and a technique able to draw the maximum effect out of each dramatic idea. The most amazing scene of all is that of the wedding night in which the bride rejects consummation, revealing that she is the king's mistress and that the purpose of the marriage (arranged by the king) was simply to provide a cloak under which their liaison could continue unsuspected: the bride's brazenness and the poor groom's horror and humiliation could not be more powerfully conveyed. Later scenes are equally effective and equally sure in their presentation.
The huge merit of this edition lies not in its introduction (which is comparatively brief and leaves a lot unexplored) but in the detailed annotation, where Craik answers almost all the reader's questions about what difficult lines actually mean, and suggests many convincing emendations, many of them modestly relegated to the footnotes.
This new `digital, on demand' edition has ugly, very thick print, that is not up to this publisher's usual standards.
The huge merit of this edition lies not in its introduction (which is comparatively brief and leaves a lot unexplored) but in the detailed annotation, where Craik answers almost all the reader's questions about what difficult lines actually mean, and suggests many convincing emendations, many of them modestly relegated to the footnotes.
This new `digital, on demand' edition has ugly, very thick print, that is not up to this publisher's usual standards.
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