Könyv jellemzők | |
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| Kiadó | Oxford University Press |
| Kötés | Fűzött |
| ISBN | 9780192829504 |
| Nyelv | Angol |
| Nyelvi szint | C2-anyanyelvi |
| Sorozat | Oxford World\'s Classics |
Each of the plays sheds fascinating light on contemporary English society in their handling of issues such as marriage, crime, and property, involving adultery, murder, witchcraft and the obligations of friendship.
All the texts are edited to modern standards from the earliest surviving copies, with explanatory notes and a glossary.
A critical introdution outlines the ways in which all four plays raise complex questions about the English society in which their tragic events unfold.
A chronology details the history of the plays and their genre from sources to recent stage history.
Two appendices supply new analysis of scholarly issues relating to two of the plays: who wrote Arden of Faversham and when did Heywood write The English Traveller.
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