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Arden of Faversham (Paperback, Revised - Revised edition)
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Arden of Faversham (Paperback, Revised - Revised edition)
Series: New Mermaids
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Loot Price R329
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This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title
page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays
scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although
the title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a
wicked woman' and her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the
unknown playwright with great dramatic skill and psychological
insight manages to balance the motivations of all the main
characters. Thomas Arden, one of the rapacious landlords so reviled
in mid-Elizabethan social drama, was murdered at his own house in
Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His murderers, it turned out, had been
hired by his wife Alice, thrall to Mosby, who hoped to rise
socially by marrying a rich widow. As the introduction to this
edition shows, sexual and material covetousness is the central
theme running through the play, which is commonly rated
'unquestionably the best of all Elizabethan domestic tragedies'.
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