The emperor's favourite
By: [edition prepared by Siobhan Keenan and checked by John Jowett]
Series: Malone Society reprints -- v. 174; Malone Society reprints -- v. 174.
Publisher: Published for the Malone Society by Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780719086090
Subjects: Drama
Other titles: Emperor's favorite
Description: ". . . The story of the tragic rise and fall of Crispinus, corrupt and powerful court favourite of tyrannical Roman Emperor, Nero ... Crispinus' story is used to offer a veiled critique of the career of ... George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628)."--Introduction.
Notes: One of four anonymous early 17C MS plays bound together with other material in a volume (MS A414) in the library of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.

Includes bibliographical references.