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All Fools

George Chapman

By Charles Edelman

All Fools
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  • ISBN: 9780719089251
  • Publish Date: Jan 2018
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    Book Information

    • Format: Hardcover
    • Pages: 224
    • Price: £90.00
    • Published Date: January 2018
    • Series: The Revels Plays

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    Of all the poets Francis Meres names in his famous Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598), just two rate a mention as being both 'our best for tragedy' and 'the best poets for comedy': William Shakespeare and George Chapman. All Fools, written in 1599, is the only Elizabethan comedy based directly on the plays of Terence. By taking episodes and characters from two brilliant works, The Self-Tormenter and The Brothers, Chapman creates something that is distinctly Elizabethan while remaining faithful to the spirit of the great Roman master. In this edition, an extensive introduction and commentary show how Chapman combines the literary and theatrical traditions of ancient Rome with everyday life in his own time to fashion a sparkling and innovative comedy that will delight audiences today as much as it did those of 1599.

    Contents

    INTRODUCTION
    Chapman at the Rose, 1598-99
    From the Rose to Blackfriars
    Terence goes to London: the sources of All Fools
    The primary plot: Terence transmogrified
    Love and marriage in Terence and Chapman
    The secondary plot: adultery for fun and profit
    Ovid and the art of adultery
    Cuckoldry as a spectator sport
    Divorce English style
    'Tis at the Half Moon Tavern'
    In praise of the horn
    The text
    ALL FOOLS
    APPENDIX The Walsingham Sonnet
    INDEX

    Author

    Charles Edelman is Honorary Senior Fellow at Edith Cowan University

    All Fools

    By Charles Edelman

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