Elizabethan Drama: Eight Plays

By William Green and John Gassner

Book Overview

Boisterous and unrestrained like the age itself, the Elizabethan theatre has long defended its place at the apex of English dramatic history. Shakespeare was but the brightest star in this extraordinary galaxy of playwrights. The stage boasted a rich and varied repertoire from courtly and romantic comedy to domestic and high tragedy, melodrama, farce, and histories. The Gassner-Green anthology revives the whole range of this universal stage, offering us the unbounded theatrical inventiveness of the age. Elizabethan Drama is designed to provide the modern reader with complete access to the plays, as well as the beguiling Elizabethan world which was their backdrop. John Gassner's classic introduction is supplemented by his and William Green's superb prefaces to the individual plays. Marginal glosses and footnotes throughout keep the immediacy of the Elizabethan stage within easy reach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557830282
• ISBN13: 9781557830289
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Applause Books
• Length: 674 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

great compendium of elizabethan plays

This is a great collection of Elizabethan plays beyond Shakespeare. There were other playwrights besides the one and only Will writing at the time, and their best efforts are worth perusing.....