Three Jacobean Tragedies
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased spine
From the shadowy, blood-soaked courts of Jacobean England emerge three of the most electrifying dramas ever written for the stage — Cyril Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, John Webster's The White Devil, and Thomas Middleton's The Changeling — each a masterwork of moral corruption, revenge, and psychological ruin. This essential anthology gathers three plays that defined an era of English theatrical brilliance, presenting a world where desire curdles into obsession, justice is indistinguishable from villainy, and death is both spectacle and reckoning. Together, these works illuminate the dark genius of the Jacobean dramatic tradition — a tradition that pushed Renaissance humanism to its most cynical and thrilling extremes. Webster's savage irony, Tourneur's ferocious satirical wit, and Middleton's chilling psychological realism combine to form a portrait of a society consuming itself from within. For readers who believe they know the depths of tragedy, these three plays stand as a reminder that the stage has always been humanity's most unsparing mirror.
Author: Tourneur / Webster / Middleton
Format: Paperback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased spine
From the shadowy, blood-soaked courts of Jacobean England emerge three of the most electrifying dramas ever written for the stage — Cyril Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, John Webster's The White Devil, and Thomas Middleton's The Changeling — each a masterwork of moral corruption, revenge, and psychological ruin. This essential anthology gathers three plays that defined an era of English theatrical brilliance, presenting a world where desire curdles into obsession, justice is indistinguishable from villainy, and death is both spectacle and reckoning. Together, these works illuminate the dark genius of the Jacobean dramatic tradition — a tradition that pushed Renaissance humanism to its most cynical and thrilling extremes. Webster's savage irony, Tourneur's ferocious satirical wit, and Middleton's chilling psychological realism combine to form a portrait of a society consuming itself from within. For readers who believe they know the depths of tragedy, these three plays stand as a reminder that the stage has always been humanity's most unsparing mirror.