Four Jacobean sex tragedies

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Four Jacobean sex tragedies

edited with an introduction and notes by Martin Wiggins

(Oxford world's classics, . Oxford English drama)

Oxford University Press, 2009

Reissued [ed]

  • : pbk

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注記

"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 1998" -- T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references

収録内容

  • The insatiate countess / William Barksted and Lewis Machin (from a draft by John Marston)
  • The maid's tragedy / Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
  • The maiden's tragedy / Thomas Middleton
  • The tragedy of Valentinian / John Fletcher

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness, and the plays collected in this volume demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit. The Insatiate Countess (1610), by William Barksted and Lewis Machin from a draft by John Marston, is a study in obsessive nymphomania and the reprisals taken by the male establishment. The Maid's Tragedy (1611) by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, reveals dark sexual secrets at the heart of the royal court, and emphasizes the political instability which ensues their discovery. Thomas Middleton's The Maiden's Tragedy (1611) provides an overtly Christian dimension to the conflict between lust and chastity, and John Fletcher's The Tragedy of Valentinian (1614) is a chilling portrayal of rape as the exercise of absolute power. Each play raises difficult questions about conventional moral and social attitudes to sexuality which remain relevant today.

目次

  • Contains: The Insatiate Countess (1610), by William Barksted and Lewis Machin from a draft by John Marston
  • The Maid's Tragedy (1611) by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
  • Thomas Middleton's The Maiden's Tragedy (1611), and John Fletcher's The Tragedy of Valentinian (1614).

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