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Renaissance Drama - An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments

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RENAISSANCE DRAMA
 
Experience the best and most noteworthy works of Renaissance drama
 
This Third Edition of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments is the latest installment of a groundbreaking collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covering not only the popular drama of the period, Renaissance Drama includes masques, Lord Mayor shows, royal performances, and the popular mystery plays of the time. The selections fairly represent the variety and quality of Renaissance drama and they include works of scholarly and literary interest.
 
Each work included in this edition comes with an insightful and illuminating introduction that places the piece in its historical and cultural context, with accompanying text explaining the significance of each piece and the ways in which it interacts with other works.
 
New to this edition are:
* The famous entertainment for Elizabeth at Kenilworth
* George Peele's remarkably inventive The Old Wives' Tale
* The oft-forgotten history of Thomas of Woodstock, predecessor to Shakespeare's Richard II
* John Lyly's Gallathea, a work which explores gender and love, written for the Children's Company at Saint Paul's
* Ben Johnson's Volpone and the controversial Epicoene
 
Perfect for scholars, teachers, and readers of the English Renaissance, Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments belongs on the bookshelves of anyone with even a passing interest in the drama of its time.

List of contents

Acknowledgments Viii
 
A Note On The Texts Ix
 
Preface To The Third Edition X
 
Introduction 1
 
Brief Lives 13
 
Chronology 22
 
Maps 31
 
Anonymous 33
 
The Noble Triumphant Coronation Of Queen Anne, Wife Unto The Most Noble King Henry The VIII
 
Richard Mulcaster 43
 
The Queen's Majesty's Passage
 
George Gascoigne 61
 
The Princely Pleasures At The Court At Kenilworth
 
Sir Philip Sidney 89
 
The Lady Of May
 
Thomas Kyd 99
 
The Spanish Tragedy
 
John Lyly 149
 
Gallathea
 
Anonymous 187
 
The Tragical History Of Thomas Of Woodstock
 
Christopher Marlowe 243
 
The Tragical History Of D. Faustus
 
Anonymous 277
 
Arden Of Faversham
 
Christopher Marlowe 321
 
The Troublesome Reign And Lamentable Death Of Edward The Second
 
George Peele 375
 
The Old Wives' Tale
 
Mary Sidney, Countess Of Pembroke 401
 
The Tragedy Of Antony
 
Thomas Dekker 441
 
The Shoemakers' Holiday
 
John Marston 485
 
The Malcontent
 
Anthony Munday 543
 
The Triumphs Of Re-United Britannia
 
Thomas Heywood 557
 
A Woman Killed With Kindness
 
Francis Beaumont 597
 
The Knight Of The Burning Pestle
 
Ben Jonson 647
 
Volpone Or The Fox
 
Ben Jonson 717
 
The Masque Of Queens
 
Ben Jonson 735
 
Epiocene, Or The Silent Woman
 
Thomas Middleton 815
 
A Chaste Maid In Cheapside
 
Elizabeth Cary 863
 
The Tragedy Of Mariam
 
John Webster 905
 
The Duchess Of Malfi
 
Anonymous 967
 
The Barriers
 
William Rowley, Thomas Deckker, And John Ford 977
 
The Witch Of Edmonton
 
Thomas Middleton And William Rowley 1033
 
The Changeling
 
John Ford 1081
 
'Tis Pity She's A Whore
 
Margaret Cavendish 1129
 
The Convent Of Pleasure: A Comedy
 
Index 1157

About the author










ARTHUR F. KINNEY is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History Emeritus in the University of Massachusetts and Founding Director of the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. He is the author and editor of a number of books and essays, including Renaissance Drama (editor, 2005), Shakespeare and Cognition (2006), Elizabethan and Jacobean England (2010), The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (editor, 2012), and Renaissance Reflections, Selected Essays 1976-2014 (2014). He is the only recipient of both the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America and the Jean Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sidney Society.
DAVID A. KATZ is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. His articles have been published in The Shakespearean International Yearbook, English Literary Renaissance, Studies in Philology, Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, The Sidney Journal, and other periodicals.


Summary

RENAISSANCE DRAMA

Experience the best and most noteworthy works of Renaissance drama

This Third Edition of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments is the latest installment of a groundbreaking collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covering not only the popular drama of the period, Renaissance Drama includes masques, Lord Mayor shows, royal performances, and the popular mystery plays of the time. The selections fairly represent the variety and quality of Renaissance drama and they include works of scholarly and literary interest.

Each work included in this edition comes with an insightful and illuminating introduction that places the piece in its historical and cultural context, with accompanying text explaining the significance of each piece and the ways in which it interacts with other works.

New to this edition are:
* The famous entertainment for Elizabeth at Kenilworth
* George Peele's remarkably inventive The Old Wives' Tale
* The oft-forgotten history of Thomas of Woodstock, predecessor to Shakespeare's Richard II
* John Lyly's Gallathea, a work which explores gender and love, written for the Children's Company at Saint Paul's
* Ben Johnson's Volpone and the controversial Epicoene

Perfect for scholars, teachers, and readers of the English Renaissance, Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments belongs on the bookshelves of anyone with even a passing interest in the drama of its time.

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