English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology

ISBN: 0393976556

Author: Bevington, David

Condition: New

The most extensive new collection in this field published in more than three decades, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology surveys the astonishing, and astonishingly varied, dramatic works written and performed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included hereby Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many othersreveal why these playwrights achievements, like Shakespeares, deserve reading, teaching, and performing afresh in our time. Edited by a team of exceptional scholars and teachers, this anthology opens an extraordinary tradition in drama to new readers and audiences.