The White Devil

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	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0671722921

Literally years after people began suggesting that I do this, I finally got around to reading the damn play. So in the words of Bette Davis: fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night. Because here's

TITUS ANDRONICUS, ABRIDGED:

TITUS: Man, it's great to be me! I'm an awesome...

Author	Thomas Middleton
ISBN	0393900614

Next on:
Sunday, 20:00 on BBC Radio 3

SynopsisA new radio production of Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's Jacobean classic, set in Alicante, Spain, in the 1920s.

Beatrice-Joanna is due to marry Alonzo e Piracquo, until she falls in love with Alsemero and seeks the help of...

Author	Marie de France
ISBN	0140447598

This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a king, and...

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...

Author	John Marston
ISBN	1854596969

The strength of this play is in the language, not the plot or charcaterisation or dramatic tension (although to be fair one should make judgements about plays which one has only read with caution: Shakespeare's comedies tend to look tame in print). The Malcontent closely parallels Tourneur's (if it...

Author	Francis Beaumont
ISBN	1434621774

This tragedy is steeped in the mores of its time. Such a comment might appear to be a statement of the obvious, but whereas Shakespeare and also Webster or Jonson within the compass of the mores and customs of their time, strain at the leash by the nature of their imagination and ability, this play is practically...