English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology

by Bevington, David; Engle, Lars; Maus, Katharine Eisaman; Rasmussen, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780393976557
• ISBN10: 0393976556
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-25
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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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