A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays

by Thomas Dekker, John Ford, William Rowley, et al.

Book Overview

Here is a marvelous collection of plays from the English Renaissance period, offering prime examples of the "domestic drama" genre that first appeared around 1590. These four pioneering works, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of marriage and crime rather than war and power, focus on the lives of ordinary people, instead of kings and queens and politicians. Arden dramatizes a notorious murder case of forty years earlier, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192829505
• ISBN13: 9780192829504
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"