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Author:   Sophie Tomlinson
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9780719088629

ISBN 10:   0719088623
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   11 January 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION The Text Lording Barry: Playwright, Pirate, Gentleman The ‘Moment’ of The Family of Love, 1605-1606 The Authorship Debate Sources and Intertexts Staging and Stagecraft The Play Genre ‘I hope my body has no organs’ (3.2.25): Language and Style ‘Efficacy in carnal mixtures’ (3.2.45): Marriage and Sexuality The Death of Melancholy THE FAMILY OF LOVE APPENDICES A Marginal Annotations in The Familie of Love B ‘ “Marstonian? ’ Features of The Family of Loveidentified by Charles Cathcart C Representations of the Family of Love in King James I, Basilicon Doron (1603) and John Rogers, The Displaying of an Horrible Sect (1578). INDEX -- .

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‘It’s an excellent edition. The introduction is splendid and the commentary gives readers all the help they could want. Barry could never have imagined that his play would receive such fine, meticulous scholarship four centuries after his death.’ Macdonald P. Jackson, Professor Emeritus, University of Auckland -- .

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Sophie Tomlinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Auckland, in New Zealand Aotearoa

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