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Mother Bombie

John Lyly

Edited by Leah Scragg

Mother Bombie
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  • ISBN: 9780719096884
  • Publish Date: Sep 2014
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    Book Information

    • Format: Paperback
    • Pages: 240
    • Price: £14.99
    • Published Date: September 2014
    • Series: The Revels Plays

    Description

    Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly's comedies in its urban setting and focus upon middle and lower class concerns.

    The play turns on the tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs, and the determination of their young servants to exploit their masters' misguided aspirations for their own advantage. A theatrical success in its own day, the play is of particular interest to twenty-first century criticism for its focus upon those situated on the margins of the social group, notably Mother Bombie herself, thought by some to be a witch, and the two simpletons whose marital prospects lie at the heart of the action.

    This fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of the play, now available in paperback, is re-edited from the earliest witnesses; the quartos of 1594 and 1598, and incorporates the songs first published by Blount in his collected edition of Lyly's works in 1632

    Contents

    General editors' preface
    Acknowledgements
    Abbreviations
    Introduction
    THE TEXT
    Authorship and date
    Sources and contexts
    Style and structure
    Cunning and folly
    Marginalization
    Dramaturgy, staging, and the stage history of the play
    Critical reception
    This edition
    Notes
    Mother Bombie
    Appendix: historical collation.
    Index

    Editor

    Leah Scragg is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester

    Mother Bombie

    Edited by Leah Scragg

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