Robert Dodsley's Books

This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.

Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare, Sawyer examines the literary reception of the two when the writers are placed in tandem during critical discourse or artistic production. Focusing on specific examples from the last 400 years, the study begins with Robert Greene’s comments in 1592 and ends with the post-9/11 and 7/7 era. The study not only looks at literary critics and their assessments, but also at playwrights such as Aphra Behn, novelists such as Anthony Burgess, and late twentieth-century movie and theatre directors. The work concludes by showing how the most recent outbreak of Marlowe as Shakespeare’s ghostwriter accelerates due to a climate of conspiracy, including “belief echoes,” which presently permeate our cultural and critical discourse.

Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full, edited, 1661 play of Robert Davenport, 'The City Night-Cap', alongside textual notes, including an introduction on the man and his works, theatrical history, characterization, theme and structure, and setting.

A new interdisciplinary perspective on masculine identity and politics in Britain during the American War of Independence, 1775-83.

First published in 1975, The English Morality Play is the extended history of the English morality play, its persistence and flourishing as a dramatic tradition. The book sheds light on the intellectual and social origins of the morality play, its relationship to the medieval Corpus Christi cycle plays, its subject, purpose, conditions of original staging, and the abstract characters of its dramatis personae. The changing tradition is revealed within Renaissance drama, in the works of Skelton and Medwall, and the Reformation plays of Lindsay, Bale and Udall, as the morality play altered under the pressure of political events, escaped from the general suppression of religious drama, and in complex ways came to influence the dramatic conceptions of Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Contemporary parallels to the English morality tradition in European drama are investigated, as is the rediscovery of the texts of the plays by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critics. In the final chapter, Dr. Potter examines the revival of the morality tradition on the twentieth-century stage and its influence on such dramatists as Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and Bertolt Brecht. This book will be of interest to students of literature and drama.

The concept of beauty in the eighteenth century, explored through philosophical texts, novels and art.

Mack incorporates recent scholarship on Gray, drawing on developments in 18th-century and gender studies, as well as on extensive archival research into the life of the poet and his family. The result is an eloquent and enlightening book, sure to be the definitive biography of this great poet, a forefather of the Romantic Movement. 50 illustrations.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.

A biography of the renowned English eighteenth-century poet and scholar Thomas Gray containing extensive quotations from Gray's literary work.

Book's by Robert Dodsley

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

Marlowe and Shakespeare

Marlowe and Shakespeare

A Critical Edition of Robert Davenport's The City Night-Cap

A Critical Edition of Robert Davenport's The City Night-Cap

Literature, Gender and Politics in Britain During the War for America, 1770-1785

Literature, Gender and Politics in Britain During the War for America, 1770-1785

The English Morality Play

The English Morality Play

Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray

Medii Aevi Kalendarium; or, Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages

Medii Aevi Kalendarium; or, Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages

Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray

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