Robert Chester's ‘Love's Martyr; Or, Rosalins Complaint': With its Supplement, ‘Diverse Poeticall Essaies on the Turtle and Phoenix'

Robert Chester

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107049611

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With its Supplement, ‘Diverse Poeticall Essaies on the Turtle and Phoenix'

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Robert Chester
Edited by Alexander Balloch Grosart

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781107049611
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107049611

Subjects:: Literature, British Theatre, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

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The literary scholar Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827–99) reprinted this allegorical poem by Robert Chester (fl.c.1586–1604) with an introduction and notes in 1878. Grosart incorrectly identified the poem's author as a certain Sir Robert Chester of Royston. Later research suggests Chester served as a chaplain or secretary in the household of the work's dedicatee, Sir John Salusbury. Originally printed in 1601, the grandiloquent, meandering poem is chiefly remembered for the works appended to it. These include original poems by Chester's contemporaries, Shakespeare, Jonson, Chapman and Marston, as well as the anonymous 'Ignoto' and 'Vatum Chorus'. All the poems treat Chester's theme, an invented myth describing the chaste, sacrificial love between a phoenix and a turtledove. Scholars continue to debate the identity of the historical figures signified by these birds, especially in Shakespeare's cryptic contribution.

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Robert Chester's ‘Love's Martyr; Or, Rosalins Complaint'

With its Supplement, ‘Diverse Poeticall Essaies on the Turtle and Phoenix'

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-v

Contents
pp vi-viii

ARGUMENT
pp ix-xvi

I - INTRODUCTION
pp xvii-xciv

Miscellaneous Frontmatter
pp xcv-xcvi

ROBERT CHESTER'S LOVE'S MARTYR, 1601
pp xcvii-c

Dedication
pp ci-civ

II - CHESTER'S LOVES MARTYR, or, ROSALINS COMPLAINT: Title-page of 1st edition of 1601
pp 1-168

III - DIVERSE POETTCALL ESSAIES ON THE TURTLE AND PHŒNIX
pp 169-188

IV - NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
pp 189-238

V - INDEX
pp 239-246

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