Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama

by SimonBarker (Editor), HilaryHinds (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $53.60

  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