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The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama
About this book
The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries in over a century.
This volume comprises seventeen accessible, thoroughly glossed, modernized play-texts, intermingling a wide range of unfamiliar works—including the anonymous Look About You, Massinger's The Picture, Heminge's The Fatal Contract, Heywood's The Four Prentices of London, and Greene's James IV —with more familiar works such as Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, and Middleton's Women Beware Women. Each play is edited by a different leading scholar in the field of early modern studies, bringing specific expertise and context to the chosen play-text.
With an unprecedented variety of plays, and critical introductions that focus on the diversity and strangeness of different early modern approaches to the artistic and commercial enterprise of play-making, The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama will offer vital new perspectives on early modern drama for scholars, students, and performers alike.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- General introduction
- 1. Cambises, by Thomas Preston
- 2. Poetaster, by Ben Jonson
- 3. The Fatal Contract, by William Heminge
- 4. The Four Prentices of London, by Thomas Heywood
- 5. Look About You, by Anonymous
- 6. The Famous Victories of Henry V, by Anonymous
- 7. The Picture, by Philip Massinger
- 8. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
- 9. The Scottish History of James the Fourth, by Robert Greene
- 10. The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster
- 11. Women Beware Women, by Thomas Middleton
- 12. The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke, by Robert Armin
- 13. The Fair Maid of the Exchange, by Anonymous
- 14. Eastward Ho, by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston
- 15. If This Be Not a Good Play, The Devil Is In It, by Thomas Dekker
- 16. The Sea Voyage, by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger
- 17. The Bird in a Cage, by James Shirley