Renaissance Drama

ARTHUR F. KINNEY is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History Emeritus in the University of Massachusetts and Founding Director of the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. He is the author and editor of a number of books and essays, including Renaissance Drama (editor, 2005), Shakespeare and Cognition (2006), Elizabethan and Jacobean England (2010), The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (editor, 2012), and Renaissance Reflections, Selected Essays 1976–2014 (2014). He is the only recipient of both the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America and the Jean Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sidney Society.DAVID A. KATZ is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. His articles have been published in The Shakespearean International Yearbook, English Literary Renaissance, Studies in Philology, Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, The Sidney Journal, and other periodicals.

• Acknowledgments ViiiA Note On The Texts IxPreface To The Third Edition XIntroduction 1Brief Lives 13Chronology 22Maps 31Anonymous 33The Noble Triumphant Coronation Of Queen Anne, Wife Unto The Most Noble King Henry The VIIIRichard Mulcaster 43The Queen’s Majesty’s PassageGeorge Gascoigne 61The Princely Pleasures At The Court At KenilworthSir Philip Sidney 89The Lady Of MayThomas Kyd 99The Spanish TragedyJohn Lyly 149GallatheaAnonymous 187The Tragical History Of Thomas Of WoodstockChristopher Marlowe 243The Tragical History Of D. FaustusAnonymous 277Arden Of FavershamChristopher Marlowe 321The Troublesome Reign And Lamentable Death Of Edward The SecondGeorge Peele 375The Old Wives’ TaleMary Sidney, Countess Of Pembroke 401The Tragedy Of AntonyThomas Dekker 441The Shoemakers’ HolidayJohn Marston 485The MalcontentAnthony Munday 543The Triumphs Of Re-United BritanniaThomas Heywood 557A Woman Killed With KindnessFrancis Beaumont 597The Knight Of The Burning PestleBen Jonson 647Volpone Or The FoxBen Jonson 717The Masque Of QueensBen Jonson 735Epiocene, Or The Silent WomanThomas Middleton 815A Chaste Maid In CheapsideElizabeth Cary 863The Tragedy Of MariamJohn Webster 905The Duchess Of MalfiAnonymous 967The BarriersWilliam Rowley, Thomas Deckker, And John Ford 977The Witch Of EdmontonThomas Middleton And William Rowley 1033The ChangelingJohn Ford 1081’Tis Pity She’s A WhoreMargaret Cavendish 1129The Convent Of Pleasure: A ComedyIndex 1157