This book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the centr

Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.

"An intense and horrible view of life."--T. S. Eliot "This drama must now be acknowledged, for dramtic power, for coherence of structure, for astonishing compre

Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early seventeenth century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corrupti