The Routledge anthology of Renaissance drama
By: Simon Barker & Hilary Hinds.
Contributors: Barker, Simon.; Hinds, Hilary.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600.; English drama -- 17th century.
Description: "Ten non-Shakespearean Renaissance plays and a masque have been brought together for the first time in what is a major text for students of English drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries." "The Renaissance saw a dramatic explosion of such force that, four hundred years later, its plays are still amongst the most frequently performed and studied we have. This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and comprehensively 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 and Thomas Dekker); The Changeling (Thomas Middleton and William Rowley); and '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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Spanish tragedy / Thomas Kyd; title: Arden of Faversham / Anon.; title: Edward II / Christopher Marlowe; title: A woman killed with kindness / Thomas Heywood; title: The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry / Elizabeth Cary; title: The masque of blackness / Ben Jonson; title: The knight of the burning pestle / Francis Beaumont; title: Epicoene, or, The silent woman / Ben Jonson; title: The roaring girl / Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker; title: The changeling / Robert Middleton and William Rowley; title: 'Tis pity she's a whore / John Ford.