Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments, 2nd Edition (Blackwell Anthologies)

by Arthur F . Kinney (Editor)

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  Illustrated
  2004

  $3.25

  This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney's The Tragedy of Antony , John Marston's The Malcontent and Ben Jonson's Masque of Queens . Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama.This book: covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques; contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women in Renaissance drama, including Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside , Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling ; includes plays and pageants not anthologized elsewhere, such as the coronation entries of Elizabeth I and Queen Anne, and Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness . For the second edition more early material has been added, such as Noah and The Second Shepherd's Play . The anthology now also includes Mary Sidney's The Tragedy of Antony , John Marston's The Malcontent and Ben Jonson's The Masque of Queens .

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama covers 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.