Highlights
27 Freshly Edited and Annotated Texts
The editors’ choice of texts reflects recent discoveries and trends in critical editing. Spelling and punctuation have been consistently modernized, and helpful stage directions are added in brackets. Annotations and editing pay special attention to staging and to the play as scripts for theatrical performance.
Student-friendly Play Introductions
The introduction to each play discusses current critical approaches (feminist, new historicist) while providing basic information about context, structure, plot, and character.
Ample Help for Students
English Renaissance Drama includes the following aids for students:
- For each play English Renaissance Drama offers a carefully glossed and annotated text, textual notes, a variant list, and a selected bibliography.
- Maps labeled with places referred to in the plays: London; its environs; the British Isles; Western Europe; and the Eastern Hemisphere in the Early Modern Period. A diagram of an Elizabethan playhouse is also included.
- Over 30 black and white illustrations.
- An extensive bibliography.
The Norton Anthology Format
English Renaissance Drama offers a single-column text with marginal glosses, which makes reading more enjoyable and facilitates understanding.
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