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A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition

A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition

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A Mirror for Magistrates, a collection of tragic verse narratives by William Baldwin, was published in Tudor and Stuart England. This modernized and annotated edition provides a clear and accessible text, with scholarly elucidations and glosses for students of early modern literature and history. The volume has remained popular with readers and authors, including William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, and Samuel Daniel.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 482 pages
Publication date: 18 August 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Over the course of six decades, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives, A Mirror for Magistrates, held the attention of readers in Tudor and Stuart England, inspiring numerous poets and playwrights to create their own works inspired by the Mirror. This modernized and annotated edition of Baldwin's collection, the first of its kind, presents the work in a clear and accessible format for contemporary readers. It also offers valuable scholarly explanations and glosses for its challenging lines and unfamiliar words. By presenting Baldwin's work in a new light, this volume enables students of early modern literature and history to reevaluate its significance and the enduring appeal of its poems to multiple generations of early modern readers and authors, including renowned figures such as William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, and Samuel Daniel.

Over the course of six decades, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives, A Mirror for Magistrates, held the attention of readers in Tudor and Stuart England, inspiring numerous poets and playwrights to create their own works inspired by the Mirror. This modernized and annotated edition of Baldwin's collection, the first of its kind, presents the work in a clear and accessible format for contemporary readers. It also offers valuable scholarly explanations and glosses for its challenging lines and unfamiliar words. By presenting Baldwin's work in a new light, this volume enables students of early modern literature and history to reevaluate its significance and the enduring appeal of its poems to multiple generations of early modern readers and authors, including renowned figures such as William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, and Samuel Daniel.

Weight: 643g
ISBN-13: 9781009224390

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