GHISMONDA : A Seventeenth-Century Tragedy (No CCXC, English Series XXIII, The Ward Bequest)

Herbert G. Wright (Editor)

Verlag: Manchester Univ Press, Manchester, UK, 1944

Beschreibung

Text/BRAND NEW. 1944 First Edition, Green linen boards/NF w/faded spine. DJ/None. Trace discoloration to endpapers. Popular theatre as indicators of changing social values. Study of the influence of popular Italian drama on English thought. Analysis, with translantion of, a drama of ill-fated lovers, Guiscardo & Ghismonda, by Boccaccio (c.1620 Italian play; MS 34312, archived in the British Museum). Guiscardo, of humble birth, is left-handedly known for "native worth"; young, widowed Ghismonda is daughter of Prince of Salerno, to whom Guiscardo is employed. Romantic love in a world when "heroes" necessarily had blood connections to high birth, legitimate or not. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001158

Bibliografische Details

Titel: GHISMONDA : A Seventeenth-Century Tragedy (...

Verlag: Manchester Univ Press, Manchester, UK

Erscheinungsdatum: 1944

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Collectible - Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: First Edition, First Thus