The Routledge anthology of early modern drama / edited by Jeremy Lopez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lopez, Jeremy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--17th century.

English drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,147 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries in over a century. This volume comprises seventeen accessible, thoroughly glossed, modernized play-texts, intermingling a wide range of unfamiliar works-including the anonymous Look About You, Massinger's The Picture, Heminge's The Fatal Contract, Heywood's The Four Prentices of London, and Greene's James IV-with more familiar works such as Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, and Middleton's Women Beware Women. Each play is edited by a different leading scholar in the field of early modern studies, bringing specific expertise and context to the chosen play-text. With an unprecedented variety of plays, and critical introductions that focus on the diversity and strangeness of different early modern approaches to the artistic and commercial enterprise of play-making, The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama will offer vital new perspectives on early modern drama for scholars, students, and performers alike"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cambises / by Thomas Preston ; edited by James Siemon

Poetaster / by Ben Jonson ; edited by Henry Turner

The fatal contract / by William Heminge ; edited by Andrea Stevens

The four prentices of London / by Thomas Heywood ; edited by William N. West

Look about you / by anonymous ; edited by Paul Menzer

The famous victories of Henry V / by Anonymous ; edited by Brian Walsh

The picture / by Philip Massinger ; edited by Lucy Munro

The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / by Christopher Marlowe ; edited by Peter Kirwan

The Scottish history of James the Fourth / by Robert Greene ; edited by Kirk Melnikoff

The Duchess of Malfi / by John Webster ; edited by Farah Karim-Cooper

Women beware women / by Thomas Middleton ; edited by Roberta Barker

The history of the two maids of More-Clack / by Robert Armin ; edited by Richard Preiss

The fair maid of the exchange / by anonymous ; edited by Genevieve Love

Eastward Ho / by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston ; edited by Katherine Schaap Williams

If this be not a good play, the devil is in it / by Thomas Dekker ; edited by David McInnis

The sea voyage / by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger ; edited by Claire M. L. Bourne

The bird in a cage / by John Shirley ; edited by Clare McManus.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-35735-3

1-315-66718-5

9781315667188

OCLC:

1119742125