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A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of
Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown
dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of
ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings
and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham,
inaugurated a new genre of 'domestic' drama, set in
near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of marriage,
crime, and property rather than war and power. Arden dramatizes a
notorious murder case of forty years earlier, in which a wealthy
husband was killed by his wife and her lover. In Thomas Heywood's A
Woman Killed with Kindness, a wife is caught by her husband in bed
with his best friend, only to find that he takes unusual reprisals.
The Witch of Edmonton combines a true-life story of witchcraft with
a fictitious tale of bigamy and wife-murder, and The English
Traveller deals with the unexpected and unwelcome changes people
find when they return home after a lengthy absence. Part of the
Oxford English Drama series, this edition has modern-spelling
texts; a critical introduction that outlines the way all four plays
raise powerful and complex questions about the English society in
which their tragic events unfold; wide-ranging notes; a chronology
of the plays from their sources to recent performance; and
appendices relating to two of the plays: who wrote Arden of
Faversham and when did Heywood write The English Traveller. ABOUT
THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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