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