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A collection of Jacobean drama - lyrical, bloodthirsty tragedies and urban comedies. Though centuries old, they display modern sensibilities regarding sex, violence, morality, and honor. The masterpieces included are: "A Woman Killed with Kindness" by Thomas Heywood; "Volpone" by Ben Jonson; "The Revenger's Tragedy" by Cyril Tourneur; and more.

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The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did