A woman killed with kindness and other domestic plays /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2008. |
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| Description: | xlviii, 344 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford English drama Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) Oxford English drama. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7246704 |
| Summary: | Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of 'domestic' drama, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues ofmarriage, crime, and property rather than war and power. Arden dramatizes a notorious murder case of forty years earlier, in which a wealthy husband was killed by his wife and her lover. In ThomasHeywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, a wife is caught by her husband in bed with his best friend, only to find that he takes unusual reprisals. The Witch of Edmonton combines a true-life story of witchcraft with a fictitious tale of bigamy and wife-murder, and The English Traveller deals with the unexpected and unwelcome changes people find when they return home after a lengthy absence. Part of the Oxford English Drama series, this editionhas modern-spelling texts; a critical introduction that outlines the way all four plays raise powerful and complex questions about the English society in which their tragic events unfold; wide-ranging notes; a chronology of theplays from their sources to recent performance; and appendices relating to two of the plays: who wrote Arden of Faversham and when did Heywood write The English Traveller. |
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| Physical Description: | xlviii, 344 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xl-xlii). |
| ISBN: | 9780192829504 0192829505 |
