A Warning for Fair Women: Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theater (Early Modern Cultural Studies)
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- Synopsis
- A Warning for Fair Women is a 1599 true-crime drama from the repertory of Shakespeare&’s acting company. While important to literary scholars and theater historians, it is also readable, relevant, and stage-worthy today. Dramatizing the murder of London merchant George Saunders by his wife&’s lover, and the trials and executions of the murderer and accomplices, it also sheds light on neighborhood and domestic life and crime and punishment. This edition of A Warning for Fair Women is fully updated, featuring a lively and extensive introduction and covering topics from authorship and staging to the 2018 world revival of the play in the United States. It includes a section with discussion and research questions along with resources on topics raised by the play, from beauty and women&’s friendship to the occult. Ann C. Christensen presents a freshly edited text for today&’s readers, with in-depth explanatory notes, scene summaries, a gallery of period images, and full scholarly apparatus.
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 282 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781496226242
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781496208361
- Publisher:
- Nebraska
- Date of Addition:
- 05/01/21
- Copyrighted By:
- the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Ann C. Christensen