The Routledge anthology of Renaissance drama
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The Routledge anthology of Renaissance drama
Routledge, 2003
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 13 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references
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Description
This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:
* The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)
* Arden of Faversham (Anon.)
* Edward II (Christopher Marlowe)
* A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood)
* The Tragedy of Mariam (Elizabeth Cary)
* The Masque of Blackness (Ben Jonson)
* The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Francis Beaumont)
* Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (Ben Jonson)
* The Roaring Girl (Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker)
* The Changeling (Thomas Middleton & William Rowley)
* 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (John Ford).
Each play is prefaced by an introductory headnote discussing the thematic focus of the play and its textual history, and is cross-referenced to other plays of the period that relate thematically and generically.
An accompanying website contains a wide selection of contextual documents which supplement the anthology: www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415187346
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements. Guide to the Anthology. Introduction. Further Reading. Chronology of English Culture and Society 1558 to 1642. The Plays: Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (1585)
- Anon., Arden of Faversham (1592)
- Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (1593)
- Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness (1603)
- Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry (1604)
- Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness (1605)
- Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607)
- Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609)
- Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl (1611)
- Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling (1622)
- John Ford, 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore (1633).
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