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The Digby Mysteries: 1. The Killing of the Children; 2. The Conversion of St. Paul; 3. Mary Magdalene; 4. Christ's Burial and Resurrection; With an ... of the Macro Moralities)
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These Digby Plays are a necessary part of the Early Play Series which the Early English Text Society has had to take up, because the New Shakspere Society had not money enough to bring them out before it stopt. Advantage has therefore been taken of the opportunity of making a cast of the New Shakspere Society's plates of the Digby Plays, without the lines round them Which put them into the quarto form in which that Society issued them in 1882. The money thus saved in providing a book for the Early English. Text Society's Extra Series in 1896 will be devoted to the Society's general object - the printing of mss. And reprinting of old books.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
These Digby Plays are a necessary part of the Early Play Series which the Early English Text Society has had to take up, because the New Shakspere Society had not money enough to bring them out before it stopt. Advantage has therefore been taken of the opportunity of making a cast of the New Shakspere Society's plates of the Digby Plays, without the lines round them Which put them into the quarto form in which that Society issued them in 1882. The money thus saved in providing a book for the Early English. Text Society's Extra Series in 1896 will be devoted to the Society's general object - the printing of mss. And reprinting of old books.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
284 pages, Paperback
First published June 25, 2007
About the author
Frederick J. Furnivall
522 books3 followersFrederick James Furnivall was an English philologist. He one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
He founded a number of learned societies on early English Literature, and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, of which the most notable was his parallel text edition of the Canterbury Tales. He was one of the founders of and teachers at the London Working Men's College and a lifelong campaigner against what he perceived as injustice.
He founded a number of learned societies on early English Literature, and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, of which the most notable was his parallel text edition of the Canterbury Tales. He was one of the founders of and teachers at the London Working Men's College and a lifelong campaigner against what he perceived as injustice.
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June 14, 2013
Of the Digby plays, I read "The Killing of the Children" and "Mary Magdalene," and both - especially compared to their semi-counterparts in the York cycle - were rich with imagery and emotion. Mary's relationship with Jesus was depicted with more complexity than I had ever seen before, and I think the play could actually be quite powerful in performance.
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