Discussing: John Fletcher's Roman Plays

Episode 284,   Sep 01, 2023, 08:00 AM

Discussing John Fletcher's Roman plays.

It's time for a discussion of John Fletcher's Roman plays, with Domenico Lovascio, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Genoa, who has written two books in this area. John Fletcher's Rome and a new edition of The False One, a play by Fletcher and Massinger.
They are both excellent texts - and I wasn't paid to say that, though I did get freebies for this episode so I might be biased. Both books are available via the below links. Manchester University Press have a mailing list, and if you join that, there are discounts available I believe.
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526151636/the-false-one/
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157386/john-fletchers-rome/

Domenico Lovascio is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Genoa, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the Classics for the Revels Plays Companion Library and the editor of Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One for the Revels Plays. He is the Italian advisor to the Oxford edition of The Complete Works of John Marston, a member of the editorial board of the journal Shakespeare, and a contributing editor to the forthcoming Collected Works of Thomas Kyd and Collected Plays of Robert Greene. He also edited the Arden Early Modern Drama Guide to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and a special issue of Shakespeare on ‘Shakespeare: Visions of Rome’. In 2020 he received the Ben Jonson Discoveries Award for outstanding contribution to The Ben Jonson Journal. His critical edition of Thierry and Theodoret by Fletcher, Massinger, and Field is forthcoming in the Revels Plays.

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