Includes the text of the play, commentary, textual notes, a key to famous lines and phrases, and an essay by Catherine Belsey.

Product Description: Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2014 production of The Tempest, Shakespeare's magical romantic comedy, directed by Tony Taccone. This stunning work of audio theater, fully dramatized with performances by the OSF cast, is a must-listen...read more

Product Description: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth was first published in 1598, and the play is widely held to have influenced Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. Only two copies of the 1598 quarto are known to exist, and this edition reproduces the copy held at the Huntington Library...read more

Product Description: The Renaissance arrived in Europe like a happy sigh. In England, playwrights found a premier home in the court of Elizabeth I. Voices like Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, George Peele and William Shakespeare came to be known as Elizabethan, and they sang to the world in revolutionary blank verse, proclaiming a new national identity for England, conqueror of the Spanish Armada...read more

Product Description: The story which furnishes the plot of this comedy is to be found in various degrees of development in the writings of various Italian and French novelists and dramatists of the sixteenth century. Of these a comedy called GV I ngannati (T he Mistaken Ones), first printed in 1537, by an unknown author, is most like Twelfth Night, to which, indeed, it corresponds in plot almost point for point...read more

'The volume contains fully annotated and modernized versions of Marlowe's Edward II, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Massinger's The Duke of Milan, Davenant's The Cruel Brother, and Ford's Love's Sacrifice. The author provides an introduction, initialdiscussion, and selected illustration(s) for each play, along with an introduction to erotic politics and the Renaissance-era political mentality'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: This book explores revenge plays by major playwrights of the English Renaissance - notably by Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster

The five plays included in this volume range over a period of more than sixty years, from about the close of the fifteenth century to the opening decade of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. They represent distinctive dramatic types in the formative earlier Tudor period which preceded and led up to the unparalleled achievement of Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights.

This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens. Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques. Contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women in Renaissance drama, including Middleton’s Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling. Includes plays and pageants not anthologised elsewhere, such as the coronation entries of Elizabeth I and Queen Anne, and Thomas Heywood’s ‘A Woman Killed with Kindness’. For the second edition more early material has been added, such as Noah and The Second Shepherd’s Play. The anthology now also includes Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Queens.

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Product Description: This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:* The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)* Arden of Faversham (Anon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)