Spectacle of empire
Subtitle: Marc Lescarbot's Theatre of Neptune in New France
By: edited and introduced by Jerry Wasserman.
Contributors: Benson, Eugene, 1928-; Benson, Renate, 1938-; Wasserman, Jerry, 1945-; Richardson, Harriette Taber.; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
Edition: 400th anniversary ed.
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780889225473
Subjects: Lescarbot, Marc,
Description: "This new edition includes the original French script along with its long out-of-print English translations by American historical preservationist Harriette Taber Richardson and Canadian scholars Engene and Renate Benson; Ben Jonson's The Masque of Blackness (1605), an illustrative contemporary English imperial spectacle; and an extensive historical and critical introduction and bibliography by theatre scholar Jerry Wasserman."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Also includes Ben Jonson's The masque of blackness (1605).

Translation of: Le Théâtre de Neptune en la Nouvelle-France.

Text mainly in English. Text of Théâtre de Neptune in French with English translations by Harriette Taber Richardson and Eugene and Renate Benson.

"Gift of Edward Ousselin"--Bookplate.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [105]-108.