| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 555 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
New mermaids anthologies |
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New mermaids (London, England)
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| Contents |
COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Early Modern Women -- A Woman Killed with Kindness -- The Tamer Tamed -- The Duchess of Malfi -- The Witch of Edmonton -- Reading the Plays Today -- FURTHER READING -- ABBREVIATIONS -- A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS -- THE TAMER TAMED -- THE DUCHESS OF MALFI -- THE WITCH OF EDMONTON -- NOTES ON THE TEXTS |
| Summary |
This New Mermaids Anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster) and The Witch of Edmonton (William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford) with a new introduction by leading scholar Emma Smith. A Woman Killed with Kindness is a domestic tragedy of property and marriage, adultery and revenge, and strips bare two women's lives in one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. The Tamer Tamed is a free-wheeling and witty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600.
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English drama -- 17th century.
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Women in literature -- History -- 16th century
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Women in literature -- History -- 17th century
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Plays, playscripts.
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Theatre studies.
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Drama -- Anthologies (multiple authors)
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English drama
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
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Women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Emma.
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Dekker, Thomas, approximately 1572-1632.
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Ford, John, 1586-approximately 1640.
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Heywood, Thomas, approximately 1574-1641.
Woman killed with kindness
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Fletcher, John, 1579-1625.
Woman's prize.
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Webster, John, 1580?-1625?
Duchess of Malfi.
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Rowley, William, 1585?-1642?
Witch of Edmonton
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| ISBN |
1408182327 |
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9781408182338 |
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1408182335 |
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9781408182321 |
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