Arden of Faversham (Paperback, Revised - Revised edition)

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'.

General

Imprint:	Methuen Drama
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Mermaids
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	August 2007
Editors:	Martin White • Tom Lockwood
Volume editors:	Martin White
Introduction by:	Tom Lockwood
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
Edition:	Revised - Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7136-7765-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7136-7765-1
Barcode:	9780713677652

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