Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
The most extensive new collection in this field published in more than three decades, surveys the astonishing, and astonishingly varied, dramatic works written and performed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
About the Author
David Bevington (Ph.D. Harvard) is Professor Emeritus of English and of Comparative Literature and Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at The University of Chicago.