Contents

Acknowledgements

Guide to the Anthology

Introduction: ‘The fashion of play-making’: theatre, drama and society in early modern England

Further Reading

Chronology of English Culture and Society 1558–1642

The Plays

Editorial Note

Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (1585)

Anon., Arden of Faversham (1592)

Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (1592)

Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603)

Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy if Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry (1604)

Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness (1605)

Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607)

Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609)

Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl (1611)

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Changeling (1622)

John Ford, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1633)