Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies William Barksted and Lewis Machin: The Insatiate Countess; Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: The Maid's Tragedy; Thomas Middleton: The Maiden's Tragedy; John Fletcher: The Tragedy of Valentinian

by Barksted, William; Machin, Lewis; Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John; Middleton, Thomas; Wiggins, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780192823205
• ISBN10: 0192823205
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness, and the plays collected in this volume demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit. The plays included are The Insatiate Countess, The Maid's Tragedy, The Maiden's Tragedy, and The Tragedy of Valentinian.

Author Biography

Martin Wiggins is Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute and Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi	(1)
Introduction	vii	(15)
Note on the Texts	xxii	(11)
Select Bibliography	xxxiii	(3)
A Chronology of the Plays	xxxvi
THE INSATIATE COUNTESS	1	(74)
THE MAID'S TRAGEDY	75	(86)
THE MAIDEN'S TRAGEDY	161	(72)
THE TRAGEDY OF VALENTINIAN	233	(96)
Appendix: Selected Textual Variants in The Maid's Tragedy and The Maiden's Tragedy	329	(2)
Explanatory Notes	331	(91)
Glossary	422