Explore rare Elizabethan drama in a scholarly new edition.
This volume gathers four lesser‑known plays, including Nero, now presented with a modernized text and valuable editor’s notes that illuminate their history and craft.
This edition aims to make inaccessible works more available to readers and students. It combines the refined artistry of the period with practical guidance, offering context, textual notes, and a clear path to understanding these plays as they were originally staged.
- Modernized texts of Nero and two other rediscovered plays
- Framing introduction that situates the works in Elizabethan drama
- Notes that explain language, stage conventions, and historical references
- Editorial apparatus tracing sources and manuscript evidence
Ideal for readers of early modern drama, students, and anyone curious about neglected plays that reveal the breadth of the Elizabethan stage.
Nathan Field trained as a Jungian analyst with the British Association of Psychotherapists in the 1960s and has now retired from private practice. He is the former Chair and Fellow of the London Centre for Psychotherapy and the author of Breakdown and Breakthrough: Psychotherapy in a New Dimension (Routledge, 1996).
Symons was a pivotal figure in British literature of the 1890s