Bøker av E. Polwhele

"The first printed edition of Polwhele's first play, -Faithful Virgins-, a tragicomedy apparently performed in London by the Duke's Company ca. 1669-1671, until now extant only in an unsigned manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. The introduction to this modern-spelling edition discusses the play in terms of radical changes in English stage practices following the restoration of the monarchy after England's civil war and situates Polwhele's play within the social and political life of seventeenth-century London"--