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Title: |
The Tragedy of Tragedies |
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| By (author): |
Henry Fielding Edited by: Darryl Domingo General editor: Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Don LePan, Roy Liuzza, Jerome J. McGann, Anne Lake Prescott, Barry V. Qualls, Claire Waters |
| ISBN10-13: |
1554811635 : 9781554811632 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
158 |
| Weight: |
.241 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - February 2013 |
| List Price: |
20.25 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
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| Best known today for the novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Henry Fielding was just as renowned in his own time as a prolific and highly successful dramatist. Among his most popular plays was The Tragedy of Tragedies: Or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb, one of the most extraordinary parodies in English theater. The print version of the play incorporates, in an elaborate structure of annotations, a remarkable satire of heroic drama and of the pretensions and excesses of â false scholarship.â This edition includes the text of the play itself and the text of the extraordinary notes (by Fieldingâ s pseudonym â H. Scriblerus Secundusâ ), appearing in facing page layout; extensive explanatory notes for the modern reader appear at the bottom of the page. Also included are a substantial introduction and a wide range of background materials that set the work in the context of its time. These contextual materials include contemporary reviews, excerpts from the plays that Fieldingâ s parody most frequently targeted, and selections from works that provided inspiration for The Tragedy of Tragediesâ from contemporary versions of the â Tom Thumbâ folktale to satirical writing by authors such as Alexander Pope, John Gay, and George Villiers. |
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