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(More customer reviews)I ordered this text for a class because it was inexpensive and had a number of plays I wanted to teach.But it is really not an adequate text in any way.For one thing, there are almost no notes--these are densely-written plays and most readers will be MUCH happier with an edition that is more heavily annotated.For another, it is a poorly made book (fell apart on me after a week or so).And it is sloppy: some of the speeches are assigned to the wrong characters. In the Revengers Tragedy, the speech prefixes Sup and Spu get switched in ways that go beyond similar problems in the original text.
Do not order this book.
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Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
The Maid's Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
The lyrical, bloodthirsty tragedies and witty urban comedies in this original collection were first performed during the reign of King James I (1603-25). Though nearly four centuries old, they display surprisingly modern sensibilities regarding sex, violence, morality, and honor. Brilliantly introduced and annotated by Frank Kermode, these seven Jacobean masterpieces are the finest and most representative plays of a time when drama was the most vital and important mirror of English society.
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