A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays.
by
Heywood, Thomas.
Title
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A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays.
Author
:
Heywood, Thomas.
ISBN
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9780191539886
Personal Author
:
Heywood, Thomas.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (1507 pages)
Series
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Oxford Worlds Classics
Contents
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Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note on the Texts -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of the Plays and their Genre -- THE TRAGEDY OF MASTER ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM -- A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS -- THE WITCH OF EDMONTON -- THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER -- Appendix 1: The Unknown Author of Arden of Faversham -- Appendix 2: The Date of The English Traveller -- Explanatory Notes -- Glossary.
Abstract
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This unique edition brings together four plays concerned with 'domestic' themes: Arden of Faversham, Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness and The English Traveller, and Dekker, Rowley and Ford's The Witch of Edmonton. Texts are in modern spelling, accompanied by a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation and bibliography. - ;Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller. In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of 'domestic' drama, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of marriage, crime, and property rather than war and power. Arden dramatizes a notorious murder case of forty years earlier, in which a wealthy husband was killed. by his wife and her lover. In Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, a wife is caught by her husband in bed with his best friend, only to find that he takes unusual reprisals. The Witch of Edmonton combines a true-life story of witchcraft with a fictitious tale of bigamy and wife-murder, and The English Traveller deals with the unexpected and unwelcome changes people find when they return home after a lengthy absence. Part of the Oxford English Drama series, this edition has modern-spelling texts; a critical introduction that outlines the way all four plays raise powerful and complex questions about the English society in which their tragic events unfold; wide-ranging notes; a chronology of the plays from their sources to recent performance; and appendices relating to two of the plays: who wrote Arden of Faversham and when did Heywood write The English Traveller. -.
Local Note
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
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Dekker, Thomas, -- approximately 1572-1632. -- Witch of Edmonton.
Domestic drama, English.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
Heywood, Thomas, -- approximately 1574-1641 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Author
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Dekker, Thomas.
Rowley, William.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 1201402-1001 | PR658 .D65 -- W66 2008 EB | Ebrary E-Books |