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Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 585-4594/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Perhaps this new edition is interesting to you: Publication date June 31, 1999 George Peele. 1999. KING EDWARD THE FIRST WITH THE LIFE OF LLUELLEN REBEL IN WALES (1593), with insert (SAMPLES) DAVID AND BETHSABE (1594). edited by George Kelsey Dreher. Midland, Texas: Iron Horse Free Press. 224pp. ISBN 0-9601000-7-5. HC $19.50 6" x 9", color cover, 20 illustrations, Foreword, Introduction, Comments, Bibliography. Publication date, June 31, 1999. 13th century history viewed from 16th century drama. Author, George Peele was in the group of London playwrights, precursory to Shakespeare, known as the "university wits" which also included Marlowe, Nashe, Lyly, and Greene. In 1587 Thomas Greene could call him, "The chief supporter of pleasance now living, the Atlas of poetry, and primum verborum artifex (most excellent artist of words)," and one who "goeth a step beyond all that write." Editor, George Kelsey Dreher provides a retroform of Peele's KING EDWARD I, solving several riddles in the text that he discusses in the 43 page introduction covering Chronicle History Plays, Sources, Structure, Theme, Characterization, and Diction. With insert DAVID AND BETHSABE (SAMPLES) Dreher juxtaposes Peele's verse with parallel Bible passages in the 1525 translation by Miles Coverdale, demonstrating that Peele worked directly from the Latin and used as sources the Psalms as well as Samuel II. Dreher offers a 35 page discussion of Peele's viewpoint, emotional involvement, and style. This hardcover edition features 10 illustrations from the British Museum, 5 from the Museum of Modern Art (NY), 4 from SCALA (IT), 2 from the Fine Arts Museum (SF), and 1 from Musee du Louvre (Paris). For more info. visit http://www.georgedreher.com/King_Edward_The_First.html George R. Dreher Iron Horse Free Press [log in to unmask]