Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments

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.