The Works of John Webster

Second volume of plays in this edition of the works of John Webster.

This volume contains The Devil's Law-Case, A Cure for a Cuckold and Appius and Virginia. It preserves original spelling, incorporates editorial scholarship and employs alternative critical methods and textual theory. The edition integrates theatrical aspects of the plays with their bibliographical and literary features.This is the second volume to appear in the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster and includes The Devil's Law-Case, A Cure for a Cuckold and Appius and Virginia. This critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays; incorporates editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays; and employs alternative critical methods and textual theory. In particular, the edition integrates theatrical aspects of the plays with their bibliographical and literary features in a way not previously attempted in a scholarly edition of a Jacobean dramatist. The edition presents all of Webster's plays (with the exception of those collaborative plays already published in the Cambridge editions of Dekker, and Beaumont and Fletcher) and provides a brief biography, an account of Webster canon, illustrations, and critical and theatrical history of each play.