There Really Was a Dodo

by Bernard L. Gordon and Esther S. Gordon

Book Overview

This 1914 scholarly edition of the mid-sixteenth-century play Jacke Jugeler contains an informative introduction and detailed notes. Little-known today, the play represents a pre-Shakespearean example of classical 'borrowing' – a Roman play by Plautus is adapted to an English domestic situation – and it is one of the first instances of confused identity and 'doubles' in English comedy. The text of this edition is taken from the unique original, probably...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809812185
• ISBN13: 9780809812189
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.