Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham
Volume II
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 March 2007
- ISBN 9780199203642
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages600 pages
- Size 220x140x45 mm
- Weight 861 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 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).
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Table of Contents:
VOLUME II
Miscellaneous writings
A Letter to Sir Thomas Osborn
To Mr Martin Clifford on his Humane-Reason
A Hue-and-Cry after Beauty and Vertue
The Militant Couple
An Essay upon Reason, and Religion, In a Letter to Nevil Pain, Esq
A Short Discourse upon the Reasonableness of Men's Having a Religion
The Duke of Buckingham His Grace's Letter, to the UnÂknown Author of a Paper, Entitled, A Short Answer to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham's Paper Concerning Religion, Toleration, and Liberty of Conscience
The French General
A Conference on the Doctrine of Transubstantiation BeÂtween His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Father Fitzgerald, An Irish Jesuit
The 'Buckingham' Commonplace Book
Poems
To his Mistress
on the Dut: by D. Buck.
'The larke' and 'The owle'
Lines on Winifred Wells
On these 2 V. of Mr Howards
On the humor in Mr [-----] Howards Play where Mr Kinaston disputes his staying in, or going out of Town
Upon the following Passage in the Conquest of Granada
An Epitaph upon Thomas Late Lord Fairfax
Duke of Bu: of la: Shros:
On the London fires Monument
A Notion Taken out of Tullie's dialogue, De Senecute
Aduice to a Paynter, to draw the Delineaments of a Statesman, and his Vunderlings
The Lost Mistress A Complaint
A Supplement to the Chequer-Inne
Upon the Installment, of Sir ----- Os-----n, and the Late Duke of New-castle
A Song on Thomas Earl of Danby
A Familiar Epistle to Mr Julian Secretary to the Muses
On Fortune
Optimum quod evenit
The Cabbin-Boy
The Ducks
Appendixes
I. Biographical Documents
II. Satiric and Commendatory Poems about Buckingham
III. The Publication of Buckingham's Works
IV. The Preface to A Key to the Rehearsal (1704)
V. A translation of Sir Politic Would-be by H. Gaston Hall
VI. 'A Sermon supposed to be preached by Dr B:'
VII. Rejected Attributions
Critical Apparatus
Explanatory Notes
Transmissional Histories
Index to Introductions and Notes
