The Works of William Congreve
Volume II
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 April 2011
- ISBN 9780199297474
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages876 pages
- Size 221x149x58 mm
- Weight 1328 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first complete edition of the works of William Congreve (1670-1729), one of Britain's most important literary figures. The texts of the plays, novel, poetry, opera, and letters are presented in original spelling. The editor, D.F. McKenzie, has added his own thorough notes at the end of each volume.
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The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William Congreve for more than twenty years, until his sudden death in 1999. This was a task he had taken over from Herbert Davis, to whom this edition is dedicated. During that time McKenzie uncovered new verse and letters, collated Congreve's texts, recorded their complicated textual history, constructed appendices that shed light on the dramatic context in which Congreve worked, and examined how his contemporaries received Congreve's work. More importantly, McKenzie has convincingly re-evaluated Congreve's works and life to transform our image of the man and his reputation.
McKenzie here follows the editorial practice suggested in two early editions of the Works published by Congreve's friend, the bookseller Jacob Tonson, in 1710 and 1719. These three volumes follow a plan similar to that in the Tonson edition, with The Old Batchelor, The Double-Dealer, and Love for Love collected in the first, a central volume with The Way of the World, and a final volume with Congreve's novel Incognita, some of his prose works, letters, and later verse. In each case, Congreve's work is left to speak for itself, unencumbered by intrusive notes, textual apparatus, or collations, which are gathered instead near the end of each volume.
This edition will be an invaluable resource for scholars for many years to come. It is a monument to McKenzie's own scholarship as well as to the integrity of William Congreve.
The new edition of [Congreve's] works, edited by D.F. McKenzie, does him full justice. It identifies and explains every topical allusion and informs us of every word that has slightly changed its meaning during the intervening centuries. All that Congreve wrote is printed in an accurate text, and everything written or said about him during his lifetime is made available. His debt to his predecessors, including Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, is acknowledged and displayed.
Table of Contents:
Plays, Masque, Opera: The Mourning Bride, The Way of the World, The Judgment of Paris, Semele
Poems: Poems upon several Occasions, Songs from Plays, Miscellaneous Poems
Music: The Mourning Bride, The Way of the World, The Judgment of Paris, Semele, and the Songs
Commentary: The Mourning Bride, The Way of the World, The Judgment of Paris, Semele, Poems upon several Occasions, Songs from Plays, Miscellaneous Poems
Early Editions and Variant Readings: The Mourning Bride, The Way of the World, The Judgment of Paris, Semele, Poems upon several Occasions
Abbreviations and Works Frequently Cited
