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Published by Nick Hern Books, 1999
ISBN 10: 1854594133ISBN 13: 9781854594136
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:9781854594136.
Published by London: printed for John Miller, 1814 - 1815., 1815
A series of five plays bound together in a single volume. The book is 12mo (18cm by 11cm) and bound in half brown morocco, gilt titling to the spine, with the title "Select British Theatre, vol 6". The binding is rubbed, the foot of the spine is chipped, the upper joint is cracked (and repaired), the contents are good to very good.
Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, 1922, 159 pages, original paper on board binding. Dutch transaltion of the original English play. The Tragedy of Sir John van Olden Barnavelt was a Jacobean play written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger in 1619, and produced in the same year by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. Based on controversial contemporaneous political events, the play was itself controversial and had to survive an attempt at suppression by religious authorities. Fletcher and Massinger composed a drama on the subject that was ready for the stage in a scant three months, by August 1619. The play they wrote has been described as "an ideologically charged work with distinct republican and anti-authoritarian connotations."[1] It was actable on the Jacobean stage only because it conformed to the official line on Oldenbarnevelt's life and death. King James I was an opponent of the Dutch statesman, and especially of his Arminianism. The Prince of Orange, Oldenbarnevelt's rival and the main engine of his downfall, was a close ally of James. In the play, Barnavelt is plainly guilty of treason and attempts to seduce English soldiers to join with him - unsuccessfully, of course. The play even touches on contemporary anti-feminism. It includes an Englishwoman who disputes with Dutch Arminian women about the proper role of women in society. The Englishwoman is traditional in outlook, while her Dutch counterparts think that women should rule. Some readers, like Algernon Charles Swinburne, stated that this was anti-feminist satire.