1st Edition

An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example

Edited By William F. Jones Copyright 1987
    342 Pages
    by Routledge

    342 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published in 1987, An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example, offers a critical examination of James Shirley's 1634 play, The Example, based on collating ten of the twenty-one copies of the play noted in Sir Walter Greg's Bibliography.

    Introduction.  1. The Text.  2. James Shirley (1956-1666).  3. Shirley's Dramatic Achievement (1625-1642).  4. The Example (1634).  The Example.  Textual Notes.  Press-Variants in Examined Copies of the Quarto (1637).  Emendations of Accidentals.  Collation of the Gifford and Dyce Edition (1833).

    Biography

    William F. Jones