Drama of the English Renaissance: Volume 1, the Tudor Period

by Russell A. Fraser and Norman Rabkin

Book Overview

The only surviving anthology of non-Shakespearean English renaissance drama. All plays edited for this anthology by the scholars Russell Fraser and Norman Rabkin. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0023395702
• ISBN13: 9780023395703
• Release Date: March 1976
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

THIS WONDERFUL ANTHOLOGY COLLECTS THESE 20 PLAYS:

Heywood -- The Four PP Mr. S [anonymous] -- Gammer Gurton's Needle Preston -- Cambyses Sackville & Norton -- Gorboduc Gascoigne -- Supposes Lyly -- Gallathea Peele -- David and Bethsabe Kyd -- The Spanish Tragedy Marlowe -- Tamburlaine the Great, Part I Marlowe -- Tamburlaine the Great, Part II Marlowe -- The Jew of Malta Marlowe -- Doctor Faustus Marlowe -- Edward II Greene -- Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay Lodge & Greene -- A Looking Glass for London and England Anonymous -- Arden of Feversham Nashe -- Summer's Last Will and Testament Anonymous -- Mucedorus Dekker -- The Shoemaker's Holiday Heywood -- A Woman Killed with Kindness And note that volume 2 (ISBN 002339580X) contains an additional 21 plays. This two-volume set is actually a more convenient and more economical way to collect 41 plays than piecing together single plays in the New Mermaids, Regents Renaissance, or Revels series. In fact, many of the plays in this two-volume set are not otherwise available. This book is an embarrasment of riches -- enjoy!