Common Conditions [?1576]: An Excellent and Pleasant Comedy, Termed After the Name of the Vice, Common Conditions (Malone Society Reprints, Vol. 168)

Barker, Roberta

ISBN 10: 0197290442 / ISBN 13: 9780197290446

Published by Oxford University Press for the Malone Society, Oxford, 2004

About this Item

First edition first printing Large octavo Hardback 86 pages Facsimile of the manuscript Fine condition No inscriptions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Common Conditions [?1576]: An Excellent and Pleasant Comedy, Termed After the Name of the Vice, Common Conditions (Malone Society Reprints, Vol. 168)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press for the Malone Society, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197290442
• ISBN 13: 9780197290446
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 1200 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This volume contains a photofacsimile edition of the only known surviving copy of the first quarto edition of the anonymous Elizabethan play, Common Conditions (1576). As the volume's brief introduction shows, this quarto is of outstanding scholarly interest for a number of reasons. The play itself is an important instance of the transition from the late medieval morality play toward the emergent early modern theatrical genres of comedy and romance. The surviving copy of the first quarto, now owned by the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, was long believed lost; it offers the only complete available text of the play. Furthermore, this quarto contains interesting annotations and revisions in an early modern hand, which are clearly visible in the facsimile. This volume will thus be of interest to students of early modern drama, of bibliography and of book ownership and reading.

About the Author

Roberta Barker is at Assistant Professor of Theatre and Early Modern Studies, Dalhousie University.