Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham
Volume I
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 March 2007
- ISBN 9780199203635
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages832 pages
- Size 220x140x70 mm
- Weight 1152 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 b/w in-text 0
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Short description:
George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the late seventeenth century. This is the first edition of his writings to be published since 1775. Almost all of his works present major difficulties in both attribution and annotation, here seriously addressed for the first time.
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George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was the principal author of The Rehearsal (1671), an enormously successful burlesque play that ridiculed John Dryden and the rhymed heroic drama. Historians remember Buckingham as an opponent who helped topple Clarendon from power in 1667, as a member of the 'Cabal' government in the early 1670s, and as an ally of the Earl of Shaftesbury in the political crisis of 1678-1683. The duke was prominent among the 'court wits' (Rochester, Etherege, Sedley, Dorset, Wycherley, and their circle); he was closely associated with such writers as Butler and Cowley; he was a conspicuous champion of religious toleration and a friend of William Penn. No edition of Buckingham has been published since 1775, partly because his work presents horrendous attribution problems. He was (probably) adapter or co-author of six plays (two of them vastly successful for more than a century) including one in French that appears here in English for the first time. He is also associated with nine topical pieces (variously political, religious, and satiric) and some twenty poems of wildly varying type. The 'Buckingham' commonplace book has previously been published only in fragmentary form. Almost all of these works present major difficulties in both attribution and annotation, here seriously addressed for the first time. This edition is a companion venture to Harold Love's important edition of Rochester (OUP, 1999).
an extraordinary accomplishment
Table of Contents:
VOLUME I
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations and Works Frequently Cited
Introduction
Works associated with Buckingham
The Chances
Sir Politick Would-be by Saint-Evremond, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Sieur d'Aubigny
The Country Gentleman by Sir Robert Howard and the Duke of Buckingham
The Rehearsal
The Restauration; or, Right will Take Place
Untitled Verse Play Fragment ['Theodorick']
Critical apparatus
Explanatory Notes
Transmissional Histories
