English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology

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.

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