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Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling (1622) can claim to be the finest tragedy in English outside Shakespeare. This story of a woman who becomes involved in murder, without realising the terrible price she will pay for it, is developed with remarkable power and insight.

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This Revels student edition of Jonson's "Volpone" has been modernised for the use of students, theatrical producers and actors of the play. The introduction presents new material about Volpone's debt to the popular Reynard beast epic and Italian commedia dell'arte.

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A brand new Revels Student Edition of John Lyly's most popular and enchanting play -- .

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Masques of difference' presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson, which reflect the royal courts self-representation as moral and just, in contrast to stylised images of chaotically (and exotically) 'othered' groups: Africans, the Irish, witches, and the homoeroticised figure of the Gypsy.

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In the REVELS PLAYS series. An anthology of plays which illustrate the ways in which both theatrical pleasures and social relations complicate the connection between women and plays in early modern drama. The plays are annotated and introduced by McLuskie using contemporary and feminist critical approaches. Aimed at students of Elizabethan drama.

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A new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its themes, action and visual imagery. From its early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance.

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This book was influential on Shakespeare when he came to write "The Merchant of Venice", since the play explores anti-Semitism and revenge. An introduction discusses the significance of this play, with commentary provided for meanings of difficult words, lines and references.

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Usually considered to be John Marston's masterpiece, "The Malcontent" is one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre - complex in genre, structure and language. This edition has notes designed for modern undergraduate use.

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R. A. Foakes's new introduction locates the play in relation to recent criticism, and explores its complexities with an eye to its contemporary relevance in the present age. This is supplemented by a guide to some of the best recent readings of the play and a commentary to help the reader with difficulties of language.

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The "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically juxtaposing romantic passion with violent death.

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This book gives us a dangerous woman who consents to the murder of her ineffectual husband. Her defence against the charge of adultery transforms a tale of crime into high tragedy. Webster's play of sexual and political intrigue written in verse and prose.

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John Ford's tragedy took as its theme fulfilled incest between brother and sister. The Revels Plays edition by Derek Roper has notes designed for modern undergraduate use. The introduction has been rewritten to take account of the studies and new approaches of the last twenty years.

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Women Beware Women is a major tragedy of the period, anatomising lust, hypocrisy and moral blindness. It is a play of people corrupted by greed for sex, wealth and position. J. R. Mulryne's latest edition of this classic drama is comprised of an accurate, modernised text, supplemented by a new, thorough and wide-ranging introduction.

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Using the fair as a symbolic representation of religious, social and political conflicts in Jacobean England, Jonson satirises Puritans, fortune hunters, country bumpkins and inept representatives of the justice system.

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"Tamburlaine the Great" achieved, and sustained, great success on the Elizabethan stage, and it speaks to our own time too, when it has been the subject of numerous productions. Cunningham and Henderson illuminate the themes of the play to help make it accessible to today's readers. In the REVELS PLAYS STUDENT EDITIONS series.

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This is the first edition for students and general readers of a pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Tamer of the Shrew' written in Shakespeare's lifetime . Co-edited by a feminist critic and a distinguished textual scholar, it makes clear why 'The Tamer Tamed' should be restored to the theatrical repertoire and the literary canon. -- .

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The multi-authored text The Witch of Edmonton is based on a witchcraft trial of 1621. It presents Mother Sawyer and her local community in the grip of a witch-mania reflecting popular belief and superstition of the time.