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Old Fortunatus David McInnis

Old Fortunatus By David McInnis

Old Fortunatus by David McInnis


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Summary

Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekker's neglected stage romance newly available.

Old Fortunatus Summary

Old Fortunatus: By Thomas Dekker by David McInnis

With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern journeying play. The adventures of Fortunatus and his sons, aided by a magical purse and wishing-hat, offers the period's most overt celebration of the pleasures of travel, as well as a sustained critique of the dangers of intemperance and prodigality. Written following a period of financial difficulty for Dekker, the play is also notable for its fascination with the symbolic, mercantile and ethical uses of gold. This Revels Plays edition is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Old Fortunatus. It offers scholarly discussion of the play's performance and textual history, including attention to the German version printed and performed in the early seventeenth century. It provides a long overdue critical reappraisal of this unjustly neglected play.

Old Fortunatus Reviews

'McInnis has produced an admirable, rigorous, and reliable scholarly edition. He has given criticism a chance to match this editorial achievement with insights of comparable height and nuance.' Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme -- .

About David McInnis

David McInnis is the Gerry Higgins Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia

Table of Contents

List of illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Authorship and the lost play(s) The text The German play Sources Performance history Critical reception Act and scene divisions Press-variants Old Fortunatus Index

Additional information

NGR9780719089435
9780719089435
0719089433
Old Fortunatus: By Thomas Dekker by David McInnis
New
Hardback
Manchester University Press
20191204
272
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