Women Beware Women, and Other Plays

Women Beware Women, and Other Plays This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside of Shakespeare -- studies in lust, power, violence, and self-delusive psychology; "A Game at Chess" was the single most popular play of the whole Shakespearean era, a satirical expose of Jesuit plotting and Anglo-Spanish politics which played tp pacifist houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it. The best-value collection available with the most officially up-to-date introduction; all the play texts are newly edited with richly informative annotation. Autor: Roger Luckhurst Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press Rok wydania: 2009 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 528 Wymiary: 19.6 x 13.6 x 3.1 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9780199538928