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:
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The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)
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Arden of Faversham (Anon.)
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Edward II (Christopher Marlowe)
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A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood)
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The Tragedy of Mariam (Elizabeth Cary)
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The Masque of Blackness (Ben Jonson)
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The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Francis Beaumont)
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Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (Ben Jonson)
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The Roaring Girl (Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker)
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The Changeling (Thomas Middleton & William Rowley)
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'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
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