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English Renaissance Drama

by Lars Engle
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Overview

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 performing afresh in our time. Edited by a team of exceptional scholars and teachers, this anthology opens an extraordinary tradition in drama to new readers and audiences.

Synopsis

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.

About the Author, Lars Engle

David Bevington (Ph.D. Harvard), General Editor, is Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at The University of Chicago. His studies include From "Mankind" to Marlowe, Tudor Drama and Politics, and Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare’s Language of Gesture. He is the editor of Medieval Drama; The Bantam Shakespeare, in twenty-nine paperback volumes; and The Complete Works of Shakespeare; as well as the Oxford 1 Henry IV, the Cambridge Antony and Cleopatra, and the Arden Troilus and Cressida. He has done critical editions of John Lyly’s Sappho and Phao, Endymion, and Midas for the Revels Plays. With Peter Holbrook he co-edited The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque. He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, and is a senior editor of the Revels Plays and of the forthcoming Cambridge edition of the works of Ben Jonson. He has received the Phi Beta Kappa Book Prize from the University of Virginia, the Quantrell Teaching Award at the University of Chicago, and two Guggenheim Fellowships.

Lars Engle (Ph.D. Yale) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. He has won the University Outstanding Teacher Award and the College Excellence in Teaching Prize at Tulsa, and has received a Mellon Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia, summer support from the NEH, the Samuel Heyman Prize for Outstanding Work in the Humanities from Yale College, and (with the other founding editors) the CELJ "Best New Journal" prize for The Yale Journal of Criticism. Professor Engle is the author of Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time and has published numerous articles.

Katharine Eisaman Maus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) is James Branch Cabell Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She received the Roland Bainton Book Prize for Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance. She is also the author of Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind; editor of a volume of Renaissance revenge tragedies; and coeditor of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, and a collection of criticism on seventeenth-century English poetry. She is a recipient of Guggenheim, NEH, ACLS, and Leverhulme fellowships.

Eric Rasmussen (Ph.D. Chicago) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant for the New Variorum Hamlet, the Mousel-Feltner Research Award, and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in the Humanities. Professor Rasmussen is the author of A Textual Companion to "Doctor Faustus" and co-editor of Doctor Faustus A- and B-Texts (Revels Plays), Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus and Other Plays (World’s Classics), the forthcoming New Variorum Hamlet, and King Henry VI, Part 3 (the Arden Shakespeare Third Series). He writes the annual review of "Editions and Textual Studies" for Shakespeare Survey.

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Book Details

Published
July 1, 2002
Publisher
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Pages
2400
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780393976557

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