RENAISSANCE DRAMA
Experience the best and most noteworthy works of Renaissance drama
This Third Edition of Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments is the latest installment of a groundbreaking collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covering not only the popular drama of the period, Renaissance Drama includes masques, Lord Mayor shows, royal performances, and the popular mystery plays of the time. The selections fairly represent the variety and quality of Renaissance drama and they include works of scholarly and literary interest.
Each work included in this edition comes with an insightful and illuminating introduction that places the piece in its historical and cultural context, with accompanying text explaining the significance of each piece and the ways in which it interacts with other works.
New to this edition are:
* The famous entertainment for Elizabeth at Kenilworth
* George Peele’s remarkably inventive The Old Wives’ Tale
* The oft-forgotten history of Thomas of Woodstock, predecessor to Shakespeare’s Richard II
* John Lyly’s Gallathea, a work which explores gender and love, written for the Children’s Company at Saint Paul’s
* Ben Johnson’s Volpone and the controversial Epicoene
Perfect for scholars, teachers, and readers of the English Renaissance, Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments belongs on the bookshelves of anyone with even a passing interest in the drama of its time.
Tabla de materias
Acknowledgments Viii
A Note On The Texts Ix
Preface To The Third Edition X
Introduction 1
Brief Lives 13
Chronology 22
Maps 31
Anonymous 33
The Noble Triumphant Coronation Of Queen Anne, Wife Unto The Most Noble King Henry The VIII
Richard Mulcaster 43
The Queen’s Majesty’s Passage
George Gascoigne 61
The Princely Pleasures At The Court At Kenilworth
Sir Philip Sidney 89
The Lady Of May
Thomas Kyd 99
The Spanish Tragedy
John Lyly 149
Gallathea
Anonymous 187
The Tragical History Of Thomas Of Woodstock
Christopher Marlowe 243
The Tragical History Of D. Faustus
Anonymous 277
Arden Of Faversham
Christopher Marlowe 321
The Troublesome Reign And Lamentable Death Of Edward The Second
George Peele 375
The Old Wives’ Tale
Mary Sidney, Countess Of Pembroke 401
The Tragedy Of Antony
Thomas Dekker 441
The Shoemakers’ Holiday
John Marston 485
The Malcontent
Anthony Munday 543
The Triumphs Of Re-United Britannia
Thomas Heywood 557
A Woman Killed With Kindness
Francis Beaumont 597
The Knight Of The Burning Pestle
Ben Jonson 647
Volpone Or The Fox
Ben Jonson 717
The Masque Of Queens
Ben Jonson 735
Epiocene, Or The Silent Woman
Thomas Middleton 815
A Chaste Maid In Cheapside
Elizabeth Cary 863
The Tragedy Of Mariam
John Webster 905
The Duchess Of Malfi
Anonymous 967
The Barriers
William Rowley, Thomas Deckker, And John Ford 977
The Witch Of Edmonton
Thomas Middleton And William Rowley 1033
The Changeling
John Ford 1081
‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore
Margaret Cavendish 1129
The Convent Of Pleasure: A Comedy
Index 1157
Sobre el autor
ARTHUR F. KINNEY is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History Emeritus in the University of Massachusetts and Founding Director of the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. He is the author and editor of a number of books and essays, including Renaissance Drama (editor, 2005), Shakespeare and Cognition (2006), Elizabethan and Jacobean England (2010), The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (editor, 2012), and Renaissance Reflections, Selected Essays 1976-2014 (2014). He is the only recipient of both the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America and the Jean Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sidney Society.
DAVID A. KATZ is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. His articles have been published in The Shakespearean International Yearbook, English Literary Renaissance, Studies in Philology, Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, The Sidney Journal, and other periodicals.
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