A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of the Birth of Merlin (Q1662)

Joanna Udall

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 31

Modern Humanities Research Association

1 January 1991  •  258pp

ISBN: 978-0-947623-34-0 (paperback)  •  RRP £25, $40

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Credited on its first title page to William Shakespeare and William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin continues to provoke speculation about its place in the Shakespeare `Apocrypha'.

The play is an imaginative re-working of the story of Merlin the Magician and his part in the struggle against the Saxon invasion of Britain. It contains not only scenes of love, war, and court politics, but a devil, a clown, and an unusual number of spectacular stage effects.

This edition seeks to provide contexts for the play's diverse elements (chronicle history, romance, spectacle, and comedy), and considers its relationships with a wide variety of texts from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English prose Brut to Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

Bibliography entry:

Udall, Joanna, A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of the Birth of Merlin (Q1662), MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 31 (MHRA, 1991)

First footnote reference: 35 Joanna Udall, A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of the Birth of Merlin (Q1662), MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 31 (MHRA, 1991), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Udall, p. 47.

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Bibliography entry:

Udall, Joanna. 1991. A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of the Birth of Merlin (Q1662), MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 31 (MHRA)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Udall 1991: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Udall 1991: 21.

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