The Lost Lady (Malone Society Reprints)

By William Berkeley

The Lost Lady, a tragicomedy that first played at the court during the Christmas festivities of 1637 and 1638, survives in three states: a scribal manuscript (now a fragment) that Berkeley himself corrected; a first folio dated 1638 (but with an imprimatur of 1637) that has manuscript corrections and interlineations; and a second folio, dated 1638 and 1639, that was corrected by hand. The Malone Society's edition, based on the manuscript and supplemented with text from the first folio and footnotes, examines the significance of these variations; Berkely's role as Governor of Virginia during the English Civil War; and the genre of the play within its historical and social contexts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197290248
• ISBN13: 9780197290248
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 0.5" x 6.8"