Comicall Satyre and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida by Campbell, Oscar James - 1938

Huntington Library Publications. 1938, 1938. Hardcover. G+ / NONE. 0x0x0. GOOD-PLUS HARDBACK

Huntington Library, 1959. Hardcover in very good condition with good dust jacket. A little underlining and writing in pencil.. Hardcover. Good/Good.

USA: Huntington Library, San Marino, 1938. Name of owner at front of book. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Front inner hinge cracing. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW.

San Marino, Ca: Huntington Library, 1959. ix, 246pp, index, bibliography. Or green cloth in jacket. One inch tear to front panel of jacket and a few very short tears to jacket edges. The main purpose of this volume is to throw new light on Shakespeare's Troillus and Cressida. It seeks to establish a definite relationship between that puzzling drama and the plays of that period that were called 'comicall satyres'. Ben Jonson invented the term and applied it to three of his works: Every Man Out of His Humor, Cynthia Revels and Poetaster, and the author includes two of Marsten's plays- Jack Drum's Entertainment and What You Will- under that label. The thesis of this book is that these 5 plays were an attempt to prolong an artificially arrested development in the field of English letters in the 16th century. Numerous prose and poetic satires were ordered destroyed and Jonson and Marston immediately sought to write plays that would serve as substitutes for these banished satires..… Read More

San Marino: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1965. 3d Printing. ix, 246p., original cloth, slight foxing on the top-edge (Huntington Library publications).

San Marino: Huntington Library, 1938. ix, 246p., original cloth (Huntington Library publications).

Huntington Library, San Marino, USA, 1938. Hardback with protected dusat-wrapper. 24 x 16cm. 246pp. Nice clean copy, slight wear to wrapper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.