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Antonio and Mellida was the first play by John Marston performed by the newly revived Paul's Company in 1599. Marston sought to display a variety of talents, comic, tragic, satiric and historical, advertising his own dramatic skills and the prowess of the choristers of Paul's. The play is based on incidents in the reigns of Sforza, Francesco, Galeazzo and Lodovico, who were Dukes of Milan in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Marston displays a detailed knowledge of the dramatic works of Shakespeare, Seneca, Kyd and Nashe as well as the prose of Sidney, Erasmus, Montaigne, Florio and others.This edition relates the play to a wide variety of literary contexts. It also includes a comprehensive introduction, an analysis of staging, and full commentary. The text is based on a collation of all known copies of the 1602 Quarto and is presented in a thoroughly modernised format.
W. Reavley Gair is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, Canada
General Editors' PrefacePrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The text (a) The quarto(b) Later editions(c ) This edition2. John Marston's contemporary reputation3. Sources4. Date5. The play and its purposes6. The play and its sequel7. The play in its theatre'The History of Antonio and Mellida'Glossarial index to the commentary
