English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology
by Bevington, David; Engle, Lars; Maus, Katharine Eisaman; Rasmussen, EricFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-07-25
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here'”by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many others'”reveal why these playwrights' achievements, like Shakespeare's, deserve reading, teaching, and performing afresh in our time. Edited by a team of exceptional scholars and teachers, this anthology opens an extraordinary tradition in drama to new readers and audiences.
Author Biography
David Bevington (Ph.D. Harvard), is professor of English and of comparative literature and Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago Lars Engle (Ph.D. Yale) is associate professor of English at the University of Tulsa Katharine Eisaman Maus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) is professor of English at the University of Virginia Eric Rasmussen (Ph.D. Chicago) is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| General Introduction | p. xiii |
| Timeline | p. lviii |
| The Plays | |
| The Spanish Tragedy | p. 3 |
| Endymion | p. 75 |
| Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | p. 129 |
| Tamburlaine the Great, Part I | p. 183 |
| Doctor Faustus | p. 245 |
| The Jew of Malta | p. 287 |
| Edward II | p. 351 |
| Arden of Faversham | p. 421 |
| The Shoemaker's Holiday | p. 483 |
| The Malcontent | p. 545 |
| The Tragedy of Mariam | p. 615 |
| Volpone | p. 673 |
| Epicene | p. 775 |
| The Alchemist | p. 861 |
| Bartholomew Fair | p. 961 |
| The Knight of the Burning Pestle | p. 1067 |
| The Maid's Tragedy | p. 1141 |
| The Woman's Prize | p. 1215 |
| The Revenger's Tragedy | p. 1297 |
| The Roaring Girl | p. 1371 |
| A Chaste Maid in Cheapside | p. 1453 |
| Women Beware Women | p. 1515 |
| The Changeling | p. 1593 |
| The White Devil | p. 1659 |
| The Duchess of Malfi | p. 1749 |
| A New Way to Pay Old Debts | p. 1833 |
| 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | p. 1905 |
| Map: Southeastern England | p. 1971 |
| Map: Western Europe | p. 1973 |
| Map: Europe and Beyond | p. 1975 |
| General Bibliography | p. 1977 |
| Illustration Acknowledgments | p. 1997 |
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