A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays
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 of marriage, crime, and property rather than war and power. In Thomas Heywood'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, an…
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Weitere Autoren: Dekker, Thomas / Rowley, William / Ford, John / Wiggins, Martin (Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute and Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham) (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-282950-4
- EAN: 9780192829504
- Produktnummer: 3576974
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.6 cm 318 g
- Gewicht: 318
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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William Rowley and John Ford are co-authors with Thomas Dekker of The Witch of Edmonton.
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