Love and Honour and the Siege of Rhodes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Love and Honour and the Siege of Rhodes<br><br>The only edition of D'Avenant's works since the folio of 1672-3 is that of Maidment and Logan in the Dramatists of the Restoration series. In that edition the text has been modernized in spelling and punctuation, comparatively few notes have been furnished, and the critical introductions to the separate plays are rather superficial. The editors deserve credit, however, for having given us an easily accessible text of all the dramatic work of this author without any expurgations.<br><br>The two plays in the present edition have been selected for the reason that they most clearly mark D'Avenant's place in the development of the drama. Love and Honour is our best instance of the romantic drama beginning to merge into the heroic, as yet unaffected, to any appreciable extent, by the influence of French romance or drama. The Siege of Rhodes not only is the most developed type of heroic play before the works of Orrery and Dryden, but it also marks the beginnings of several important developments on the English stage.<br><br>I wish to acknowledge my grateful indebtedness to those who have assisted me in the preparation of this volume, especially Professors George P. Baker, Felix E. Schelling, William Hand Browne, and Chester N. Greenough, and the librarians of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.