A King and No KingAccompanying the newly edited text, an introduction explores the play's sources, both literary and dramatic, and offers a thorough reconsideration of its relation to its social and political context and contemporary issues of royal absolutism, good governance and the political role of the aristocracy. |
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| Title | A King and No King Page 59 of English comic dramatists, 1884, Oswald Crawfurd Volume 12312 of Project Gutenberg Revels plays |
| Authors | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher |
| Editor | Lee Bliss |
| Edition | illustrated, annotated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0719058635, 9780719058639 |
| Length | 194 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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