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Renaissance Drama » (22nd Edition)

Book cover image of Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney

Authors: Arthur F. Kinney
ISBN-13: 9781405119672, ISBN-10: 1405119675
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: 22nd Edition

Author Biography: Arthur F. Kinney

Arthur F. Kinney is Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell, 2002) and of the journal English Literary Renaissance. His other recent publications include Lies like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment (2001), Shakespeare by Stages (Blackwell, 2002), and Shakespeare’s Webs: Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama (2004).

Book Synopsis

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.

	The Oxfordshire St. George play	31
	The cycle plays	37
	The murder of Abel (Towneley cycle)	43
	Noah (Chester cycle)	57
	The second shepherds' play (Towneley cycle)	69
	A merry play between the pardoner and the friar, the curate and neighbor Pratt	89
	The noble triumphant coronation of Queen Anne, wife unto the most noble King Henry the VIII	103
	The Queen's Majesty's passage	115
	The lady of May	133
	The Spanish tragedy	143
	The tragical history of D. Faustus	193
	Arden of Faversham	227
	The troublesome reign and lamentable death of Edward the Second	271
	The tragedy of Antony	325
	The shoemakers' holiday	365
	The malcontent	409
	The triumphs of re-united Britannia	467
	A woman killed with kindness	481
	The knight of the burning pestle	521
	The masque of queens	571
	A chaste maid in Cheapside	589
	The Duchess of Malfi	637
	Bartholomew Fair	699
	The barriers	775
	The changeling	785
	" 'Tis pity she's a whore	833
App. I	The Chester plays	885
App. II	The order of Corpus Christi plays at Chester	886
App. III	The late banns for performance, Chester	887
App. IV	Anne Boleyn's entry into London	890
App. V	The history of a most horrible murder commited at Faversham in Kent	893
App. VI	On the prohibition of plays	899
App. VII	The case against drama	900
App. VIII	Stage plays and interludes, with their wickedness	902
App. IX	The life and raigne of King Edward of Carnarvan	903
App. X	The infortunate mariage of a gentleman, called Antonio Bologna, wyth the Duchesse of Malfi, and the pitifull death of them both	906
App. XI	The creation of Prince Charles	908
App. XII	Floor plan of Gray's Inn Hall	910
App. XIII	John Chamberlain, letter to Dudley Carleton, August 21, 1624	911
App. XIV	Exchequer accounts, October 1, 1631-September 10, 1632	912
App. XV	A survey of the chambers and societies of the inns of court	913
App. XVI	Women's roles	914