Title: Renaissance drama : an anthology of plays and entertainments /
Authors: Kinney, Arthur F., 1933-
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers,
Year: 1999
Subjects: English drama; English drama; Renaissance England
Abstract: "This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama is the first ever to cover the full sweep of dramatic performances in the England Shakespeare knew. Newly edited from manuscript and quarto, all the major playwrights are here - Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Webster - as well as new dramatic scripts and plays published for the first time. Extensive footnotes clarify special terms, hidden meanings, and puns, and separate introductions to each of the 18 works show how cultural practices are represented and questioned in each separate work, whether it was designed for public or private performance, for great manor houses, town halls or the playhouse and streets of London itself.
Contents: The Queen's Majesty's passage / Ricard Mulcaster -- The lady of May / Sir Philip Sidney -- The Spanish tragedy / Thomas Kyd -- The honorable entertainment given to the Queen's Majesty in progress, at Elvetham in Hampshire / Anonymous -- The tragical history of D. Faustus ; The troublesome reign and lamentable death of Edward the Second / Christopher Marlowe -- The shoemakers' holiday ; The magnificent entertainment / Thomas Dekker -- A woman killed with kindness / Thomas Heywood -- The masque of blackness ; Bartholomew fair / Ben Jonson --The triumphs of re-united Britannia / Anthony Munday -- The knight of the burning pestle / Francis Beaumont -- A chaste maid in Cheapside / Thomas Middleton -- The duchess of Malfi / John Webster -- The changeling / Thomas Middleton and William Rowley -- 'Tis pity she's a whore / John Ford.