Four Jacobean Sex TragediesMartin Wiggins Oxford University Press, 1998 - 427 pages Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness, and the plays collected in this volume demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit. The plays included are The Insatiate Countess, The Maid's Tragedy, The Maiden's Tragedy, and The Tragedy of Valentinian. |
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Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies William Barksted,Lewis Machin,Francis Beaumont,John Fletcher,Thomas Middleton No preview available - 2009 |
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ABIGAIL Aeolus AËTIUS AMAGO AMINTOR Anna ANSELMUS ARDELIA ARETUS Aspatia Balbus BELLARIUS blood body Caesar CALIANAX cast included chaste CHILAX CLARIDIANA classical mythology CLAUDIA court dare dead death DIPHILUS dost DULA Emperor Enter EUDOXA EVADNE Exeunt Exit eyes faith fear give GNIACA gods GOVIANUS grace Guido heart heaven Helvetius honour husband Isabella Jacobean John Marston kill King kiss Lady Lentulus Lady's LEONELLA live look lord lover LUCINA lust LYCIAS LYCINIUS LYSIPPUS madam Maid Maid's Tragedy masque MAXIMUS MELANTIUS Memphonius Mendosa mistress Mizaldus murder ne'er never noble note to Countess PHIDIAS PHORBA play pleasure PONTIUS Pray prithee PROCULUS revenge Roberto ROGERO Roman SAGO Second Maiden's Tragedy Servant sexual soldier Sophonirus soul speak stage Strato sword tell THAIS thee There's thine thou art thou hast TYRANT unto VALENTINIAN virtue VOTARIUS weep wench whore wife woman women wrong