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Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid Jose A. Perez Diez

Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid By Jose A. Perez Diez

Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid by Jose A. Perez Diez


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A fully annotated critical edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massingers ground-breaking comedy Loves Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615), a fascinating exploration of the journey of two transgender characters in an adverse heteronormative society. This Revels Plays edition offers a modernised text and a full critical commentary.

Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid Summary

Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid: By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger by Jose A. Perez Diez

John Fletcher and Philip Massingers comedy Loves Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovative and provocative play that explores the struggle of two transgender siblings, Lucio and Clara, who have been brought up as members of their opposite genders. After twenty years of separation, they are forced to switch around their gender identities, facing fierce scrutiny from their family and the cruelly heteronormative society of early modern Seville. This Revels Plays volume is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of the play ever to be published. The text has been modernised and is accompanied by full commentary. The introduction presents ground-breaking research on the plays remarkable engagement with its Spanish literary sources, and it provides a full discussion of its dating, authorship, and reception by literary critics and in the theatre.

Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid Reviews

'The culmination of more than a decade of patient textual comparison, collation, and emendation coupled with extensive biographical and historical research, Jose A. Perez Diezs Revels edition of Loves Cure, or The Martial Maid constitutes an important addition to the relatively small extant body of Fletcher-associated plays available as single volume texts. Supplying us with an accessible modern spelling text of a play that twenty-first century instructors and students will likely find compelling, the editions extensive, efficiently organized front matter offers a clear-eyed glimpse into the literary-historical matters that complicate study of the playwright and his collaborators' Early Theatre -- .

About Jose A. Perez Diez

Jose A. Perez Diez is Lecturer in Early Modern Drama in the School of English at the University of Leeds

Table of Contents

Introduction
LOVES CURE, OR THE MARTIAL MAID
Appendices
1 Press variants
2 Compositorial analysis and running titles
3 Censorship in F
4 Pioratos song
5 Disputed narrative sources

Additional information

NGR9781526178800
9781526178800
152617880X
Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid: By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger by Jose A. Perez Diez
New
Paperback
Manchester University Press
2024-04-30
288
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