A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays
Autor: | Dekker, Thomas Ford, John Heywood, Thomas Rowley, William |
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EAN: | 9780192829504 |
Sachgruppe: | Pädagogik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 400 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Herausgeber: | Wiggins, Martin |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 08.05.2008 |
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In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of 'domestic' drama, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of marriage, crime, and property rather than war and power. In Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, a wife is caught by her husband in bed with his best friend, only to find that he takes unusual reprisals. The Witch of Edmonton combines a true-life story of witchcraft with a fictitious tale of bigamy and wife-murder, and The English Traveller deals with the unexpected and unwelcome changes people find when they return home after a lengthy absence.