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Dewey Decimal Number: 822.308
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Page Count: 1997
Printing Date: July 18, 2002
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English renaissance drama, a burgeoning field of scholarship, is impoverished when it comes to teaching materials. This anthology provides a selection of plays and editorial apparatus tuned to undergraduates. The 27 plays included in this text are ordered chronologically by the playwright's birth dates. The edited and annotated texts reflect recent discoveries and trends in critical editing. Annotations and editing pay special attention to staging and to the plays as scripts for theatrical performance. Student-friendly introductions discuss contemporary critical approaches while providing basic information about context, structure, plot and character.
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I'm very impressed with this anthology. Explanatory notes and definitions are added in all the right places, making the plays easier to understand than any other annotated Renaissance literature I've read (including Shakespeare). I've read about six of these plays and still haven't had to consult a dictionary; the brief definitions in the margins explain nearly all archaic words and phrases. And the notes are always on the same page as the text, no disruptive endnotes! This anthology is, as a result, remarkably readable.
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Many of the important plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are included in this excellent collection. In other editions of these plays, the reader is left to his or her own devices, but this edition has thorough notes and introductions of the type one usually only sees in Shakespeare collections. Plays that one has often read about, but not actually read, such as Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, become wonderfully accessible in this superb edition.
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This is an excellent anthology--good selection, fine editing, helpful notes, BUT it is printed on incredibly light-weight paper. So much so that it can be hard to read because the printing from the other side of the page always shows through.
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This is an excellent selection of plays from authors contemporary to Shakespeare. There are some real masterpieces here, such as Women Beware Women and the Maid's Tragedy, that have been unfairly neglected due to the looming presence of Shakespeare. The editing is generally fine, although perhaps a bit overdone. According to the editors, every second line includes a sexual reference. The introductions to individual plays are helpful AFTER you've read the play. For English Majors and scholars, these plays are an unexplored gold mine!!
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