The humorous magistrate (Arbury) / [prepared by Margaret Jane Kidnie, and checked by N.W. Bawcutt.].

The humorous magistrate (Arbury) / [prepared by Margaret Jane Kidnie, and checked by N.W. Bawcutt.].

Manchester : Published for the Malone Society by Manchester University Press ; Vancouver : Distributed exclusively in Canada by UBC Press ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, ©2012.

xxvi, 103 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm

The Malone Society reprints ; vol. 177, 2011 (2012)

The Humorous Magistrate is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. This, the earliest and clearly working draft of the play is bound with three other plays (including The Emperor's Favourite, published by the Malone Society in 2010) in a volume in the library of the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The second version, showing yet another stage of revision not found in the Arbury manuscript and orientated towards performance, was purchased by the University of Calgary from the English antiquarian Edgar Osborne in 1972. The relationship between the manuscripts was discovered in 2005. The anonymous play has been attributed to John Newdigate III (1600-1642). Like The Emperor's Favourite, it takes aim at the court; its particular object of satire is governmental strategies under the Personal Rule of Charles I. The play appears in print for the first time in these separate editions. The volumes are illustrated with several plates, some provided for comparative purposes. -- Provided by publisher.

Attributed to John Newdigate III (1600-1642).

"The second of the Malone Society's projected series of editions based on the plays in Arbury MS A414"--P. [v].

Includes bibliographical references.

Malone Society reprints ; v. 177.

Great Britain -- England.

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