Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy
Subtitle: an anthology
By: Edited by Robert Ornstein and Hazelton Spencer
Contributors: Spencer, Hazelton, 1893-1944, joint ed.
Publisher: Heath
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780669214772
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; English drama (Tragedy)
Notes: A companion volume to the editors' Elizabethan and Jacobean comedy: an anthology.
Table of contents: title: General introduction.; title: The plays: The Spanish tragedy, by T. Kyd. The tragical history of Doctor Faustus, by C. Marlowe. Bussy D'Ambois, by G. Chapman. The white devil, by J. Webster. The changeling, by T. Middleton and W. Rowley. The broken heart, by J. Ford.; title: Background and source materials: The medieval morality play: Everyman. The De Casibus tradition: The induction from The mirror for magistrates. The myth of the Machiavel: Innocent Gentillets̕ Contre-Machiavel. The source of The changeling: John Reynolds' "tragicall historie" of Alsemero and Beatrice-Joanna.