The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama

This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:* The Spanish Tragedy(Thomas Kyd)* Arden of Faversham (Anon.)* Edward II (Christopher Marlowe)* A Woman Killed with Kindness(Thomas Heywood)*The Tragedy of Mariam(Elizabeth Cary)* The Masque of Blackness (Ben Jonson)* The Knight of the Burning Pestle(Francis Beaumont)* Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (Ben Jonson)* The Roaring Girl(Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker)* The Changeling(Thomas Middleton & William Rowley)*'Tis Pity She's a Whore (John Ford).Each play is prefaced by an introductory headnote discussing the thematic focus of the play and its textual history, and is cross-referenced to other plays of the period that relate thematically and generically.An accompanying website contains a wide selection of contextual documents which supplement the anthology: www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415187346

Simon Barker is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Gloucestershire Hilary Hinds is Lecturer in English at the University of Lancaster