Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies William Barksted and Lewis Machin: the Insatiate Countess; Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: the Maid's Tragedy; Thomas Middleton: the Maiden's Tragedy; John Fletcher: the Tragedy of Valentinian |
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| Author:
| Barksted, William
Machin, Lewis
Beaumont, Francis
Fletcher, John
Middleton, Thomas |
| Editor:
| Wiggins, Martin |
| Series title: | Oxford World's Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-955552-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2009 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness. The plays collected here demonstrate Jacobean Tragedy at its most sinister and explicit. Contains: The Insatiate Countess (1610), by William Barksted and Lewis Machin from a draft by John Marston; The Maid's Tragedy (1611) by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher; Thomas Middleton's The Maiden's Tragedy (1611), and John...
More DescriptionJacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness. The plays collected here demonstrate Jacobean Tragedy at its most sinister and explicit. Contains: The Insatiate Countess (1610), by William Barksted and Lewis Machin from a draft by John Marston; The Maid's Tragedy (1611) by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher; Thomas Middleton's The Maiden's Tragedy (1611), and John Fletcher's The Tragedy of Valentinian (1614).