John Skelton Magnyfycence

by John Skelton (Editor)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Genres: Theatre

302 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2000

About the author

John Skelton, aka John Shelton, (c. 1463-1529) was an English poet and tutor to King Henry VIII.

Reviews

[Nicole]

(read for Tudor lit) '

lol I'm suffering too much to not count this. even after discussion for two days I still don't know what went on in that, but I didn't try to read it two separate times for nothing

[Nicholas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although the introduction called this play "tedious", I found it quite good reading. It resembles Respublica in that the central, heroic figure is beset by allegorical vices, only to defeat them by the help of allegorical virtues; but Respublica is far more lively and fun, with comic interludes, and bad language from the vices.