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Elizabethan Drama II: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLVII (in 51 Volumes)

Elizabethan Drama II: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLVII (in 51 Volumes)

Dekker, Thomas
Massinger, Philip
Eliot, Charles W.

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ISBN10: 1616401699
ISBN13: 9781616401696
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: May 1 2010
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name Harvard Classics, this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XLVII features a selection of Elizabethan drama spanning the breadth of that newly mature domain: - The Shoemaker's Holiday, a 1599 comedy of manners and romance by THOMAS DEKKER (1572-1632) - The Alchemist, the 1610 play considered the best comedy by BEN JONSON (1572-1637) - Philaster, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1584-1616) and JOHN FLETCHER (1579-1625), a tragicomedy dating from around 1610 - The Duchess of Malfi, by JOHN WEBSTER (c. 1580-c. 1634), a violent, tragic horror tale - A New Way to Pay Old Debts, the 1625 satire by PHILIP MASSINGER (1583-1640), which invented a villain-Sir Giles Overreach-who endured to become a 19th-century icon

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