The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0415187346 ISBN 13: 9780415187343

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2002

Riassunto

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

Su questo libro

Recensione:

'This splendid anthology is the perfect economical textbook to shape an undergraduate module.' - Kevin de Ornellas, Queen's University Belfast

L'autore:

Simon Barker is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Gloucestershire. His research and teaching interests lie in the cultural history of the Tudor and early-Stuart periods with an emphasis on drama.
Hilary Hinds is Lecturer in English at the University of Lancaster. Her research and teaching focus principally on seventeenth-century literature, in particular on women's writing from the radical sects.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0415187346
• ISBN 13: 9780415187343
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 472
• Redattore: Barker Simon