The Changeling

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743484908

Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration, Angelo, to enforce the laws more rigorously. Angelo chooses as his first victim Claudio, condemning...

Author	Christopher Marlowe
ISBN	0486282082

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different...

Author	John Webster
ISBN	1426465246

"John Webster's first independent play, The White Devil, originally performed in 1612, centres on the beautiful Vittoria Corombona and her lover, Duke Brachiano, whose passionate, adulterous affair unleashes the powerful revenge of their enemies. While clearly guilty of lust and murder, these...

Author	William Wycherley
ISBN	0713632879

I taught this play on a yearly basis at the end of the first half of English Lit sophomore survey, Anglo-Saxon to Restoration (more than half except to cramped moderns). After teaching it for the fifth year, it was performed by our best local (Providence, RI) theater; my school had 25 tickets for students,...

Author	John Fletcher
ISBN	0719053676

This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew by a playwright (John Fletcher) who was more admired than Shakespeare in the seventeenth century. A unique and essential companion to the numerous textbook editions of Shakespeare's...

Author	Ben Jonson
ISBN	0393900401

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:

� The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
� Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant...