The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama

The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeares contemporaries in over a century. This volume comprises seventeen accessible, thoroughly glossed, modernized play-texts, intermingling a wide range of unfamiliar worksincluding the anonymous Look About You, Massingers The Picture, Heminges The Fatal Contract, Heywoods The Four Prentices of London, and Greenes James IVwith more familiar works such as Marlowes Doctor Faustus, Websters The Duchess of Malfi, and Middletons Women Beware Women. Each play is edited by a different leading scholar in the field of early modern studies, bringing specific expertise and context to the chosen play-text. With an unprecedented variety of plays, and critical introductions that focus on the diversity and strangeness of different early modern approaches to the artistic and commercial enterprise of play-making, The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama will offer vital new perspectives on early modern drama for scholars, students, and performers alike.