LEADER 03116nam 2200553 450 001 9910807440003321 005 20230803211009.0 010 $a1-4081-8232-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000011244347 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6198836 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6159067 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4948270 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4948270 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL851169 035 $a(OCoLC)1024271480 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011244347 100 $a20200814d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aWomen on the early modern stage $ea woman killed with kindness, the tamer tamed, the Duchess of Malfi, the witch of Edmonton /$fintroduction by Emma Smith 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cMethuen Drama,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (582 pages) 225 1 $aNew mermaids 311 $a1-4081-8231-9 327 $aA Woman killed with kindness -- The Tamer Tamed -- The Duchess of Malfi -- The Witch of Edmonton. 330 $aThis New Mermaids Anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster) and The Witch of Edmonton (William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford) with a new introduction by leading scholar Emma Smith. A Woman Killed with Kindness is a domestic tragedy of property and marriage, adultery and revenge, and strips bare two women's lives in one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. The Tamer Tamed is a free-wheeling and witty comedy in which the place and status of women, and the nature of marriage, are subjected to sustained attention, demonstrating one way in which early modern writers were able to challenge and invert social convention, and to at least imagine alternative modes of behaviour. The Duchess of Malfi is a classic revenge tragedy and masterpiece of the Jacobean bizarre, featuring a severed hand, a wolf-man, and a poisoned Bible. The Witch of Edmonton is a domestic tragedy in which Elizabeth Sawyer sells her soul to the Devil to revenge her neighbours. These four early modern plays plays upset old certainties about gender ideology: less 'chaste, silent and obedient' and more diverse, eloquent, and complex. 410 0$aNew mermaids (London (England)) 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century 606 $aWomen in literature$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aWomen in literature$xHistory$y17th century 615 0$aEnglish drama 615 0$aEnglish drama 615 0$aWomen in literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen in literature$xHistory 676 $a822.3 702 $aSmith$b Emma$g(Emma Josephine), 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807440003321 996 $aWomen on the early modern stage$94001339 997 $aUNINA