The Routledge anthology of Renaissance drama / edited by Simon Barker and Hilary Hinds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barker, Simon.

Hinds, Hilary

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600.

English drama.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

English drama--17th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 457 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

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 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 brilliantly annotated texts 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. 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.

Contents:

The Spanish tragedy / Thomas Kyd

Arden of Faversham / Anon.

Edward II / Christopher Marlowe

A woman killed with kindness / Thomas Heywood

The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry / 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 / Robert Middleton and William Rowley

'Tis pity she's a whore / John Ford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0415187338

0415187346

OCLC:

48534535