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Arden of Faversham by Martin White (Editor, Volume Editor); Tom Lockwood
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 f ...Show more
Epicoene or the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids | Reading Level: very good
'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed comedy in any language'. Its title signals Jonson's ...Show more
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton; William Rowley; Joost Daalder (Editor)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids | Reading Level: very good
Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century. Alsemero has fallen in love with the beautiful Beatrice after a chance meeting in a church - but Beatrice has already been promised to another man. Unable to marry the man she loves, she emplo ...Show more
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: The New Mermaids | Reading Level: good
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, The Duchess of Malfi (1614) adapts the true story of a noble Italian widow who secretly marries her steward and has children with him. Her two brothers, enraged by this act of female self-determination, begin to spy on the happy family, ...Show more
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
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Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids | Reading Level: very good
Universally considered Webster's masterpiece, this violent play presents a dark and disturbing portrait of the human condition. The play's heroine is imprisoned by her brothers because she bore a commoner's son.
The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Contexts" is thematically arranged to include almost all known documents from the period concerning Mary Frith (aka Moll Cutpurse), among them records of her court appearances, letters recounting the same, and her last will. Also reprinted are significant passages from her purported 1662 "autobiography ...Show more
Three Late Medieval Morality Plays - Mankind/Everyman/Mundus et Infans
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Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Take example, all ye that this do hear or see... The Morality Play was popular in England between 1400 and 1600. It offers moral instruction and spiritual teaching with personal abstractions representing good and evil. Surviving plays from that period number about sixty and the three in this edition we ...Show more
Volpone by Ben Jonson; Robert Watson (Editor, Volume Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, a ...Show more
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