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David Bevington - Pap with an Hatchet by John Lyly - 9780719087387 - V9780719087387
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Pap with an Hatchet by John Lyly

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Description for Pap with an Hatchet by John Lyly With reproduction of original title page: Pappe with an hatchet: alias, A figge for my god sonne, or, Cracke me this nut, or, A countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning / written by one that dares call a dog, a dog, and made to prevent Martins dog daies. Series Editor(s): Edmondson, Paul; White, Martin. Series: Revels Plays Companion Library. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.

The first fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of Lyly’s Pap with an Hatchet, this volume in the Revels Plays Companion Library series opens a window on the most neglected item in the Lylian canon. A response to a series of late sixteenth-century anti-episcopalian pamphlets issued under the pseudonym ‘Martin Marprelate’, Pap with an Hatchet seeks to beat Martin at his own game, employing all the devices deployed in the tracts to deride and subvert the Martinist position.

Written in a racy, colloquial style, and at variance in its format with twenty-first century printing conventions, the pamphlet has remained ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
Revels Plays Companion Library
Number of Pages
128
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719087387
SKU
V9780719087387
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About David Bevington
Leah Scragg is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester -- .

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