num_pages: 480
description: 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 plays included are TheInsatiate Countess , The Maid's Tragedy , The Maiden's Tragedy , and The Tragedy of Valentinian .
language: English
title: Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies
titlecomplete: Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies
genres: Plays, Drama
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Oxford University Press