ABSTRACT
The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries in over a century.
This volume comprises seventeen accessible, thoroughly glossed, modernized play-texts, intermingling a wide range of unfamiliar works—including the anonymous Look About You, Massinger’s The Picture, Heminge’s The Fatal Contract, Heywood’s The Four Prentices of London, and Greene’s James IV—with more familiar works such as Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, and Middleton’s Women Beware Women. Each play is edited by a different leading scholar in the field of early modern studies, bringing specific expertise and context to the chosen play-text.
With an unprecedented variety of plays, and critical introductions that focus on the diversity and strangeness of different early modern approaches to the artistic and commercial enterprise of play-making, The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama will offer vital new perspectives on early modern drama for scholars, students, and performers alike.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry |40 pages
Cambises (1560–61?)
entry |83 pages
Poetaster, or His Arraignment (1601)
entry |56 pages
The Fatal Contract (1638–39)
chapter 4|3 pages
Thomas Heywood, The Four Prentices of London
entry |69 pages
True and Strange, or The Four Prentices of London (c. 1594)
entry |80 pages
Look About You (c. 1595–99)
chapter 6|3 pages
Anonymous, The Famous Victories of Henry V
entry |29 pages
The Famous Victories of Henry V (c. 1588)
entry |84 pages
The Picture (1629)
chapter 8|3 pages
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
entry |36 pages
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (c. 1588)
chapter 9|3 pages
Robert Greene, The Scottish History of James the Fourth
entry |64 pages
The Scottish History of James IV (1588–92)
entry |82 pages
The Duchess of Malfi (1614)
chapter 11|3 pages
Thomas Middleton, Women Beware Women
entry |81 pages
Women Beware Women (c. 1613–21)
chapter 12|3 pages
Robert Armin, The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke
entry |70 pages
The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke (1609)
chapter 13|3 pages
Anonymous, The Fair Maid of the Exchange
entry |63 pages
The Fair Maid of the Exchange (c. 1601–2)
chapter 14|4 pages
George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, Eastward Ho
entry |58 pages
Eastward Ho (1605)
chapter 15|3 pages
Thomas Dekker, If This Be Not a Good Play, The Devil Is In It
entry |70 pages
If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil is In It (1611–12)
chapter 16|4 pages
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The Sea Voyage
entry |58 pages
The Sea Voyage (1622)
entry |57 pages
The Bird in a Cage (1633)