English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology

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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 here—by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and Thomas Middleton, among many others—reveal why these playwrights' achievements, like Shakespeare's, 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.


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The most extensive collection published in this field in over 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 twenty-seven plays included here -- by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, and many others -- reveal why these playwrights' achievements, like Shakespeare's, deserve reading, teaching, and performing afresh in ours. Edited by a team of exceptional scholars and teachers, this anthology opens up an extraordinary tradition in drama to new readers and audiences.


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