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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
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
$10.00 NZD
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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