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A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays
A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays

A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays

Author: 
Thomas Heywood; Thomas Dekker; William Rowley; John Ford; Martin Wiggins
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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 of marriage, 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 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, 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 edition has 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 the plays 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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Index: 

Introduction
Note on the Texts
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of the Plays and their Genre
THE TRAGEDY OF MASTER ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM
A WOMEN KILLED WITH KINDNESS
THE WITCH OF EDMONTON
THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER
Appendix 1: The Unknown Author of Arden of Faversham
Appendix 2: The Date of The English Traveller
Explanatory Notes
Glossary

About the author: 

William Rowley and John Ford are co-authors with Thomas Dekker of The Witch of Edmonton.

Product details

ISBN : 9780192829504

Author: 
Thomas Heywood; Thomas Dekker; William Rowley; John Ford; Martin Wiggins
Pages
400 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 195 mm
Pub date
May 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays

A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays

A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays