Arden of Feversham
Author | : Ronald Bayne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Arden of Feversham |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ronald Bayne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Arden of Feversham |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tom Lockwood |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2014-06-02 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1408144743 |
This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman' and her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the unknown playwright with great dramatic skill and psychological insight manages to balance the motivations of all the main characters. Thomas Arden, one of the rapacious landlords so reviled in mid-Elizabethan social drama, was murdered at his own house in Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His murderers, it turned out, had been hired by his wife Alice, thrall to Mosby, who hoped to rise socially by marrying a rich widow. As the introduction to this edition shows, sexual and material covetousness is the central theme running through the play, which is commonly rated 'unquestionably the best of all Elizabethan domestic tragedies'.
Author | : Gina Bloom |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0472053817 |
Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not just see a play; they were encouraged to play the play, and knowledge of gaming helped them become better theatergoers. Examining dramas written for these theaters alongside evidence of analog games popular then and today, Bloom argues for games as theatrical media and theater as an interactive gaming technology. Gaming the Stage also introduces a new archive for game studies: scenes of onstage gaming, which appear at climactic moments in dramatic literature. Bloom reveals plays to be systems of information for theater spectators: games of withholding, divulging, speculating, and wagering on knowledge. Her book breaks new ground through examinations of plays such as The Tempest, Arden of Faversham, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and A Game at Chess; the histories of familiar games such as cards, backgammon, and chess; less familiar ones, like Game of the Goose; and even a mixed-reality theater videogame.
Author | : Catherine Richardson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2022-01-27 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1474289320 |
Based on the true story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife, her lover and accomplices in 1551, Arden of Faversham is one of the earliest domestic tragedies and a play which has continued to thrill audiences since its first staging. This comprehensive edition situates the play in its social, cultural and political context while exploring its performance and critical history through a range of historical and contemporary productions, including William Poel's Lilies That Fester (1897) and the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2014 production. Throughout, the edition aims to reanimate the play's engagement with the material culture of domestic life, using little-known evidence for the objects and spaces implicated in the murder. The introduction also accounts for recent new thinking about the play's likely authorship, including claims that Shakespeare was a key co-author. The comprehensive, illustrated introduction combined with detailed on-page commentary notes and glosses make this an ideal edition for students and teachers.
Author | : Donald R. Kelley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1997-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521590693 |
Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.
Author | : Catherine Richardson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2022-01-27 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1474289312 |
Based on the true story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife, her lover and accomplices in 1551, Arden of Faversham is one of the earliest domestic tragedies and a play which has continued to thrill audiences since its first staging. This comprehensive edition situates the play in its social, cultural and political context while exploring its performance and critical history through a range of historical and contemporary productions, including William Poel's Lilies That Fester (1897) and the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2014 production. Throughout, the edition aims to reanimate the play's engagement with the material culture of domestic life, using little-known evidence for the objects and spaces implicated in the murder. The introduction also accounts for recent new thinking about the play's likely authorship, including claims that Shakespeare was a key co-author. The comprehensive, illustrated introduction combined with detailed on-page commentary notes and glosses make this an ideal edition for students and teachers.
Author | : Simon Barker |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9780415187336 |
"The Renaissance saw a dramatic explosion of such force that, four hundred years later, its plays are still amongst the most frequently performed and studied we have. This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and comprehensively annotated texts of the following plays: The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd); Arden of Faversham (Anon.); Edward II (Christopher Marlowe); A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tragedy of Mariam (Elizabeth Cary); The Masque of Blackness (Ben Jonson); The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Francis Beaumont); Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (Ben Jonson); The Roaring Girl (Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker); The Changeling (Thomas Middleton and William Rowley); and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (John Ford).".
Author | : Patricia Hyde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The 'myth' of Thomas Arden refers to the play "The Tragedie of Arden of Feversham and Blackwill" presented in 1592 describing the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife. This book re-examines the evidence, setting Arden among his comtemporaries in a more realistic setting. According to a deposition in a court case in 1548, Thomas born in 1508 and died when he was 43 years old.
Author | : Keith Sturgess |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-02-23 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0241961467 |
Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery, punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and characterization often enhanced by a highly entertaining blend of realism and sensationalism. Only some half-dozen survive to offset the dramas of kings and nobles in the tragedies of Shakespeare and his peers. They combined journalism and entertainment with a didactic concern, and their plots were often derived from contemporary events. Arden of Faversham (1592) and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) are both based on chronicles or pamphlets describing authentic murders, while A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) by Thomas Heywood is a fictional creation, considered his masterpiece.
Author | : David M. Bevington |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780719016462 |
Based on the original and authoritative Revels texts, Plays on Women brings together four plays that dramatize the lives of women in Shakespeare’s England. Presenting both domestic tragedy and city comedy, the anthology depicts women as witty tricksters and heart-breaking victims, adulteresses and faithful wives. In each play, the women break out of familiar roles, challenging both theatrical and social convention to offer the pleasures of laughter, pathos and suspense. McLuskie's introduction uses the latest interdisciplinary research to explore the dynamic relationship between women, the theatre and the social world. The annotation unravels the complexities of language and performance that sustain the plays’ stunning theatrical power.