Woman Killed With Kindness and Other Domestic Plays

Informationen zum Autor William Rowley and John Ford are co-authors with Thomas Dekker of The Witch of Edmonton. Klappentext In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of 'domestic' drama, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of marriage, crime, and property rather than war and power. In Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, a wife is caught by her husband in bed with his best friend, only to find that he takes unusual reprisals. The Witch of Edmonton combines a true-life story of witchcraft with a fictitious tale of bigamy and wife-murder, and The English Traveller deals with the unexpected and unwelcome changes people find when they return home after a lengthy absence. Zusammenfassung This unique edition brings together four plays concerned with 'domestic' themes: Arden of Faversham, Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness and The English Traveller, and Dekker, Rowley and Ford's The Witch of Edmonton. Texts are in modern spelling, accompanied by a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation and bibliography. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Note on the Texts Select Bibliography A Chronology of the Plays and their Genre THE TRAGEDY OF MASTER ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM A WOMEN KILLED WITH KINDNESS THE WITCH OF EDMONTON THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER Appendix 1: The Unknown Author of Arden of Faversham Appendix 2: The Date of The English Traveller Explanatory Notes Glossary

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• Authors: Thomas Dekker, John Ford, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker Heywood, Thomasr Heywood, William Rowley
• Assisted by: Martin Wiggins (Editor), Martin (Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute and Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham) Wiggins (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2008
• EAN: 9780192829504
• ISBN: 978-0-19-282950-4
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; Oxford English Drama; Oxford World's Classics; Oxford English Drama; Oxford World's Classics (Paper
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies