The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama
Simon Barker editor Hilary Hinds editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:3rd Oct '02
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- Hardback£135.00(9780415187336)
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
'This splendid anthology is the perfect economical textbook to shape an undergraduate module.' -Kevin de Ornellas, Queen's University Belfast
ISBN: 9780415187343
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1020g
472 pages