The Dramatic Works of Thomas Nabbes, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) by Charlotte Moore
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Author: Charlotte Moore
Page Count: 76 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
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ISBN: 9781330597897
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Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Thomas Nabbes, Vol. 1
The Collected Poems and Plays of Thomas Nabbes, edited by A. H. Bullen, and published in 1887, is the first and only attempt to bring the work of this dramatist into a form easily accessible to the student of the old drama. The introduction to this edition supplemented by Sir Sidney Lee's sketch in The Dictionary of National Biography, has furnished the point of departure for the biographical comment which opens the present study of Nabbes as a dramatist and the author of the tragedy, Hannibal and Scipio. As far as practicable, the sources used by the biographers named, and by others of the scant commentators upon Nabbes, have been carefully reexamined. In the review of the individual plays, Bullen's edition has been used for the comedies, the masques and the tragedy of The Unfortunate Mother. For the more detailed study of the tragedy, Hannibal and Scipio, the Quarto text, 1637, has been used.
The method is indicated in general, at each stage of the investigation, which has aimed to distinguish as clearly as possible between the modicum of the really authoritative and the purely inferential concerning Nabbes and his work. The aim has been not so much to draw conclusions as to find probable grounds for possible conclusions.
Grateful acknowledgement is due to the professors of the department of English in the University of Pennsylvania, to whose lectures there is traceable either direct or indirect influence, in this study. Special acknowledgement is made to Professor F. E. Schelling under whose direction the study was undertaken and to whose criticism it was submitted. Among those of other departments acknowledgement is due to Professor Walton B. McDaniel of the department of Latin.
Among librarians, those of the circulating department of the University of Pennsylvania, those of Columbia University and the librarian of the University of Chicago, are remembered for special courtesies. The librarian of the Bodleian, Oxford, has generously granted a transcript of the manuscript fragment used in the study of Hannibal and Scipio, and reprinted at the close. The Rector of Exeter College kindly sent copies of the record of the matriculation of Nabbes in that College.
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