This New Mermaids anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage.

This New Mermaids anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage.

Informationen zum Autor Emma Smith Klappentext This New Mermaids anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster) and The Witch of Edmonton (William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford) with a new introduction by leading scholar Emma Smith. A Woman Killed with Kindness is a domestic tragedy of property and marriage, adultery and revenge, and strips bare two women's lives in one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. The Tamer Tamed is a free-wheeling and witty comedy in which the place and status of women, and the nature of marriage, are subjected to sustained attention, demonstrating one way in which early modern writers were able to challenge and invert social convention, and to at least imagine alternative modes of behaviour. The Duchess of Malfi is a classic revenge tragedy and masterpiece of the Jacobean bizarre, featuring a severed hand, a wolf-man, and a poisoned Bible. The Witch of Edmonton is a domestic tragedy in which Elizabeth Sawyer sells her soul to the Devil to revenge her neighbours.These four early modern plays plays upset old certainties about gender ideology: less 'chaste, silent and obedient' and more diverse, eloquent, and complex. Zusammenfassung This New Mermaids anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Further reading Abbreviations A Woman Killed With Kindness The Tamer Tamed Th Duchess of Malfi The Witch of Edmonton Notes on the Texts

Autorentext

Emma Smith

Inhalt

Introduction
Further reading
Abbreviations
A Woman Killed With Kindness
The Tamer Tamed
Th Duchess of Malfi
The Witch of Edmonton
Notes on the Texts