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The Dramatic Works of Sir William D'avenant, Vol. 4: With Prefatory Memoir and Notes
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The first act was afterwards introduced for the purpose of stringing together, as it were, those several little pieces so as to form a play of five acts, which was then the conventional length....
The first act was afterwards introduced for the purpose of stringing together, as it were, those several little pieces so as to form a play of five acts, which was then the conventional length....
449 pages, Hardcover
Published August 24, 2018
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October 23, 2021Specifically The Unfortunate Lovers - no idea if it is actually in this specific volume.
Some quite decent dialogue, particularly the verse. Lots of echoes of Shakespeare - well it's set in Verona, two doomed lovers, a gold statue at the end... Oddly there is an implication of a much earlier setting, with a (nasty) character Hildebrand, King of the Lombards. Lots of fairly random killing, but not wholly satisfying. Still, it beats Carlell and Suckling, whose works were also being performed at the time. These three were all courtiers first, writers second at best, and it shows.
Read as part of the REP online readathon of the King's Men repertoire in the dank October of 2021.
Some quite decent dialogue, particularly the verse. Lots of echoes of Shakespeare - well it's set in Verona, two doomed lovers, a gold statue at the end... Oddly there is an implication of a much earlier setting, with a (nasty) character Hildebrand, King of the Lombards. Lots of fairly random killing, but not wholly satisfying. Still, it beats Carlell and Suckling, whose works were also being performed at the time. These three were all courtiers first, writers second at best, and it shows.
Read as part of the REP online readathon of the King's Men repertoire in the dank October of 2021.
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