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Product Description: Designed as a complement to the sections of pre-Shakespearean and Elizabethan comedies already published in The World's Classics as part of a series of anthologies of the English drama.

Traces the evolution of English drama from 1560 to 1642, examining dramatic styles, actors, playwrights, and playhouses. Includes scenes from three tragedies.

Three warning plays describe a husband's murder by his wife, two children killed by their father, and a wife's adultery and repentance

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.

Presents examples of folk drama, and morality plays, and the early tragedies and comedies following classical models

Product Description: This is an edition of two sixteenth-century interludes, Witty and Witless by John Heywood, which was first intended for performance before Henry VIII, and Like Will to Like by Ulpian Fulwell. Each play is supplied with an introduction, in which there is a discussion of the text, and a brief outline of historical and literary issues...read more

Product Description: Classical Monologues for Men contains monologues from English plays from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and American plays of the 18th century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book contains monologues from English plays from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and American plays of the 18th century. They range from highly dramatic pieces that are classical in sugject matter as well as in nature, to the sparklilng, brittle wit of the late 17th and 18th centuries...read more

Explores the life and works of William Shakespeare and analyzes the playwright's literary and dramatic craftmanship

Product Description: Skipping the works of Shakespeare and Johnson (which are readily accessible), the six plays discussed here have been chosen to represent a remarkable flowering of tragic dramatic writing during one of the most prolific periods of theatrical activity, that known as the English Renaissance, from about 1590 to 1640...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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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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