Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid

By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger

José A. Pérez Díez

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English

Manchester University Press
30 April 2024

Series: The Revels Plays

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovative and provocative play that explores the struggle of two transgender siblings, Lucio and Clara, who have been brought up as members of their opposite genders. After twenty years of separation, they are forced to switch around their gender identities, facing fierce scrutiny from their family and the cruelly heteronormative society of early modern Seville. This Revels Plays volume is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of the play ever to be published. The text has been modernised and is accompanied by full commentary. The introduction presents ground-breaking research on the play's remarkable engagement with its Spanish literary sources, and it provides a full discussion of its dating, authorship, and reception by literary critics and in the theatre.

Edited by: José A. Pérez Díez
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 338g
ISBN: 9781526178800
ISBN 10: 152617880X
Series: The Revels Plays
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jos A. Prez Dez is Lecturer in Early Modern Drama in the School of English at the University of Leeds

Reviews for Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid: By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger

'The culmination of more than a decade of patient textual comparison, collation, and emendation coupled with extensive biographical and historical research, José A. Pérez Díez’s Revels edition of Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid constitutes an important addition to the relatively small extant body of Fletcher-associated plays available as single volume texts. Supplying us with an accessible modern spelling text of a play that twenty-first century instructors and students will likely find compelling, the edition’s extensive, efficiently organized front matter offers a clear-eyed glimpse into the literary-historical matters that complicate study of the playwright and his collaborators' Early Theatre -- .