Arden of Faversham - 2nd edition

Informationen zum Autor MARTIN WHITE Professor of Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK. MARTIN WHITE Professor of Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK. Klappentext This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman' and her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the unknown playwright with great dramatic skill and psychological insight manages to balance the motivations of all the main characters. Thomas Arden, one of the rapacious landlords so reviled in mid-Elizabethan social drama, was murdered at his own house in Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His murderers, it turned out, had been hired by his wife Alice, thrall to Mosby, who hoped to rise socially by marrying a rich widow. As the introduction to this edition shows, sexual and material covetousness is the central theme running through the play, which is commonly rated 'unquestionably the best of all Elizabethan domestic tragedies'. Vorwort This revised edition of Arden of Faversham contains a completelyre-written Introduction that brings the text up to date with the latestperformance history, criticism and research and fresh insight into thecontext in which the play was written. Zusammenfassung This revised edition of Arden of Faversham contains a completely re-written Introduction that brings the text up to date with the latest performance history, criticism and research and fresh insight into the context in which the play was written.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Lockwood, Martin Lockwood White
• Assisted by: Tom Lockwood (Editor), Lockwood Tom (Editor), Martin White (Editor), Martin (University of Bristol White (Editor), Tom Lockwood (Introduction), Lockwood Tom (Introduction)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2007
• EAN: 9780713677652
• ISBN: 978-0-7136-7765-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: New Mermaids; New Mermaids
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights