The Malone Society
About the series
The Malone Society is named after Edmond Malone, the editor of the first variorum edition of Shakespeare. Since its foundation in 1906, its purpose has been to make more accessible the materials essential for the study of English Renaissance drama. Its publications are renowned for their meticulous scholarship and high standard of accuracy, and are indispensable to students of early drama, and to university libraries providing resources in the fields of English Renaissance literature and theatre history.
The Society, which is a registered charity, publishes editions of sixeteenth-century and seventeenth-century plays from manuscript, photographic facsimile editions of printed plays of the period, and editions of original documents relating to Renaissance theatre and drama. Recent volumes include: newly discovered plays (The Wisest Have Their Fools About Them); Shakespeare Quarto facsimiles (The Two Noble Kinsmen); works by canonical authors (John Lyly, Sapho and Phao and Gallathea and Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess); rare or otherwise inaccessible texts (William Cavendish, The Country Captain); drama of the early sixteenth century (Two Moral Interludes) and various collections of documents relating to the drama of the period.
Manchester University Press is pleased to help celebrate the Malone Society's centenary by becoming the Society's publisher and representative. A full-colour photofacsimile, reproduced in actual size, of John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, is one of several volumes commemorating the centenary. It was prepared by Meg Powers Livingston and was recently enthusiastically reviewed in the TLS by Laurie Maguire, who noted that 'The reader can enjoy flicking back and forth from Powers's descriptions and analysis to the high-quality pictorial evidence' and predicted that the continuing adaptability of the Society in the digital age 'points towards several more Society centenaries'.
A full listing of published volumes can be found on the website: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/malone
This series is within the Literature subject area.