Family of Love

By Lording Barry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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The Family of Love charts a successful love intrigue between the cash-strapped Gerardine, and Maria, the sequestered niece of the mercenary Doctor Glister. Their romance unfolds against the dissection of two citizen marriages, the Glisters’ and the Purges’. Mistress Purge attends Familist meetings independently, arousing her husband’s suspicions about her marital fidelity. Two libertines, Lipsalve and Gudgeon, go in search of sex and solubility (freedom from constipation), receiving more than they bargain for in respect of the latter. This scholarly edition of Family of Love marks the first occasion on which the comedy is attributed to Lording Barry in print. It brings together literary and historical discussion with a thorough analysis of the play’s disputed authorship. Tomlinson highlights Barry’s rich vein of burlesque humour in a comedy that combines magic, a trunk, and a mock-court session with vigorous colloquial language.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-01-11
Mått138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRevels Plays
Antal sidor256
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719088629

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INTRODUCTIONThe TextLording Barry: Playwright, Pirate, GentlemanThe ‘Moment’ of The Family of Love, 1605-1606The Authorship DebateSources and IntertextsStaging and StagecraftThe PlayGenre‘I hope my body has no organs’ (3.2.25): Language and Style‘Efficacy in carnal mixtures’ (3.2.45): Marriage and SexualityThe Death of MelancholyTHE FAMILY OF LOVEAPPENDICES A Marginal Annotations in The Familie of LoveB ‘ “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

‘…a valuable contribution to the Revels Plays catalogue and another admirableinstance of the series’s demonstrable eagerness in recent years to offer more critically neglected plays the same editorial treatment as their more oft-studied counterparts.’Early Theatre‘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‘A superb contribution to the study of early modern drama'Parergon'The text may pre-date electricity, but rather than something old, this is language in its infancy: elastic and aural and as naughty as a toddler.'Benjamin Kilby-Henson, Theatre Director