Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama

<p><em>The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama</em> is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries in over a century.</p><p>This volume comprises seventeen accessible thoroughly glossed modernized play-texts intermingling a wide range of unfamiliar works--including the anonymous <i>Look About You</i> Massinger's <i>The Picture</i> Heminge's <i>The Fatal Contract</i> Heywood's<i> The Four Prentices of London</i> and Greene's <i>James IV</i>--with more familiar works such as Marlowe's <i>Doctor Faustus</i> Webster's <i>The Duchess of Malfi</i> and Middleton's <i>Women Beware Women</i>. 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.</p><p>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 <i>The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama</i> will offer vital new perspectives on early modern drama for scholars students and performers alike.</p>