Renaissance Drama : An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments

by Kinney, Arthur F.

• ISBN13: 9781405119672
• ISBN10: 1405119675
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney's The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston's The Malcontent and Ben Jonson's Masque of Queens. Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques. Contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women in Renaissance drama, including Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling. Includes plays and pageants not anthologised elsewhere, such as the coronation entries of Elizabeth I and Queen Anne, and Thomas Heywood's 'A Woman Killed with Kindness'. For the second edition more early material has been added, such as Noah and The Second Shepherd's Play. The anthology now also includes Mary Sidney's The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston's The Malcontent and Ben Jonson's The Masque of Queens.

Author Biography

Arthur F. Kinney is Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell, 2002) and of the journal English Literary Renaissance. His other recent publications include Lies like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment (2001), Shakespeare by Stages (Blackwell, 2002), and Shakespeare’s Webs: Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama (2004).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
A Note on the Texts	x
Preface to the Second Edition	xi
Introduction	1	(13)
Brief Lives	14	(7)
Chronology	21	(8)
Maps	29	(2)
The Oxfordshire St. George Play	31	(6)
The Cycle Plays	37	(52)
The Murder of Abel (Mactacio Abel) (Towneley Cycle)	43	(14)
Noah (Chester Cycle)	57	(12)
The Second Shepherds' Play (Towneley Cycle)	69	(20)
JOHN HEYWOOD	89	(16)
A Merry Play Between the Pardoner and the Friar: the Curate and Neighbor Pratt
ANONYMOUS	105	(10)
The Noble Triumphant Coronation of Queen Anne. Wife unto the Most Noble King Henry the VIII
RICHARD MULCASTER	115	(18)
The Queen's Majesty's Passage
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY	133	(10)
The Lady of May
THOMAS KYD	143	(50)
The Spanish Tragedy
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE	193	(34)
The Tragical History of D. Faustus
ANONYMOUS	227	(44)
Arden of Faversham
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE	271	(54)
The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second
MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE	325	(40)
The Tragedy of Antony
THOMAS DEKKER	365	(44)
The Shoemakers' Holiday
JOHN MARSTON	409	(58)
The Malcontent
ANTHONY MUNDAY	467	(14)
The Triumphs of Re-United Britannia	467	(14)
THOMAS HEYWOOD	481	(40)
A Woman Killed with Kindness
FRANCIS BEAUMONT	521	(50)
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
BEN JONSON	571	(18)
The Masque of Queens
THOMAS MIDDLETON	589	(48)
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
JOHN WEBSTER	637	(62)
The Duchess of Malfi
BEN JONSON	699	(76)
Bartholomew Fair
ANONYMOUS	775	(10)
The Barriers
THOMAS MIDDLETON AND WILLIAM ROWLEY	785	(48)
The Changeling
JOHN FORD	833	(48)
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Further Background Reading	881	(2)
Appendix: Cultural Documents	883	(32)
I: The Chester Plays	885	(1)
II: The Order of Corpus Christi Plays at Chester	886	(1)
III: The Late Banns for Performance, Chester	887	(3)
IV: Anne Boleyn's Entry into London	890	(3)
V: The History of a Most Horrible Murder Commited at Faversham in Kent	893	(6)
VI: On the Prohibition of Plays	899	(1)
VII: The Case Against Drama	900	(2)
VIII: Stage Plays and Interludes, with their wickedness	902	(1)
IX: The Life and Raigne of King Edward of Carnarvan	903	(3)
X: The infortunate mariage of a Gentleman, called Antonio Bologna, wyth the Duchesse of Malfi, and the pitifull death of them both	906	(2)
XI: The Creation of Prince Charles	908	(2)
XII: Floor Plan of Gray's Inn Hall	910	(1)
XIII: John Chamberlain, Letter to Dudley Carleton, August 21, 1624	911	(1)
XIV: Exchequer Accounts, October 1, 1631-September 10, 1632	912	(1)
XV: A Survey of the Chambers and Societies of the Inns of Court	913	(1)
XVI: Women's Roles	914	(1)
Index of Titles	915