Four Jacobean Sex Tradegies

Explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and 17th century social, cultural and political values. The plays collected in this volume demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit and raise difficult questions about conventional moral and social attitudes to sexuality.

Product details

• Authors: William Barksted, Francis Beaumont, Lewis Machin, Martin Wiggins
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.1998
• EAN: 9780192823205
• ISBN: 978-0-19-282320-5
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Series: World's classics; World's classics; World's classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature