A major anthology of 27 Elizabethan and Jacobean plays by Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Middleton, and others, spanning tragedy, comedy, and revenge drama.
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A major anthology of 27 Elizabethan and Jacobean plays by Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Middleton, and others, spanning tragedy, comedy, and revenge drama.
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"The most extensive new collection in this field published in more than three decades, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology surveys the astonishing, and astonishingly varied, dramatic works written and performed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here -- by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many others -- reveal why these playwrights achievements, like Shakespeare s, deserve reading, teaching, and pe...
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Sexual content
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Sexual intrigue, adultery, and seduction recur; some coercion and lust plots
Violence & gore
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Revenge tragedies with murder, torture, poisoning, skulls, and body horror
Profanity
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Period oaths, curses, and coarse comic language throughout many plays
Substance use
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Tavern drinking and drunkenness common, especially in city comedies
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Cross-dressing heroine in The Roaring Girl; stage gender-disguise plots
Religious content
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Christian theology central; damnation, sin, and divine justice in key plays
Magic & witchcraft
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Supernatural conjuring used as dramatic spectacle in some plays
Occult / demonology
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Demonic pacts, Mephistopheles, and soul-selling central in Doctor Faustus
Political content
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Court intrigue, power struggles, corruption, and class themes recur
Self-harm / suicide
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Multiple on-page suicides and suicidal acts across the tragedies
Abuse & suffering
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Torture, familial cruelty, and sexual violence in revenge tragedies
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