John Home: A Study of His Life and Works; With Special Reference to His Tragedy of Douglas and the Controversies Which Followed Its First Representations (Classic Reprint)
John Home: A Study of His Life and Works; With Special Reference to His Tragedy of Douglas and the Controversies Which Followed Its First Representations (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from John Home: A Study of His Life and Works; With Special Reference to His Tragedy of Douglas and the Controversies Which Followed Its First Representations This dissertation aims to give a complete account of the life of John Home and of his dramatic work, with special emphasis on his tragedy, Douglas. The biographical material has been assembled from var ious contemporary memoirs, autobiographies, letters, magazines, and other documents, and subsequent biographical accounts of Home have thus been checked by ...
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Excerpt from John Home: A Study of His Life and Works; With Special Reference to His Tragedy of Douglas and the Controversies Which Followed Its First Representations This dissertation aims to give a complete account of the life of John Home and of his dramatic work, with special emphasis on his tragedy, Douglas. The biographical material has been assembled from var ious contemporary memoirs, autobiographies, letters, magazines, and other documents, and subsequent biographical accounts of Home have thus been checked by examination of the original data accessible, and enlarged into a more comprehensive discussion of Home's life. The stage-history of Douglas has been traced in detail, especially in connection with the Edinburgh and London theatres, and numerous magazines and newspapers have been consulted with reference to American as well as Scottish and English perform auces. The earliest printed editions of the play have been collated, and the priority of the first London over the first Edinburgh edition definitely established. The church-controversies and the war of pamphlets following the appearance of the play in Scotland have, for the first time, been thoroughly investigated. Full evidence as to the religious controversies have been found in contemporary documents, and the literary controversies have been examined in the light of the extensive collection of tracts, serious and satirical, in prose and in verse, in the Bodleian Library. Most of this material is here presented for the first time. Home's five other tragedies have been fully studied in the light of their stage-history and of the critical comment upon them. His unpublished and incomplete dramatic works, together with his non-dramatic lit crary works, have also been discussed. A general estimate of Home as a dramatist presents the broader aspects of his dramas. An Appendix includes var ious documents bearing upon his dramatic work, together with a bibliography. The chief sources for a biography of John Home are the excellent account of his life and writings by his personal friend, Henry Mackenzie, and the auto biography of Alexander Carlyle, whose association with Home began when they were fellow-students at the University of Edinburgh. Quotations from these authors are essential to any attempt to repro duce the atmosphere in which John Home lived. How ever, Carlyle's Autobiography is carried only to the year 1770, and ends, consequently, almost forty years before the death of Home; and Mackenzie's Life, although published in 1822, eight years after his death, contains no more adequate treatment than does the Autobiography of the religious and literary controversies over the tragedy of Douglas. Current magazines, newspapers, theatrical chronicles, and lit erary opinions have, therefore, aided in giving, it may be, a more comprehensive view of a Very interesting period in Scottish history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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