This is a companion volume to Five Elizabethan Comedies by the same editor, A.K. McIwraith, who again provides an interesting Introduction and Notes.

Emma Smith's introduction considers the political and religious climate behind the plays and the dramatic conventions within them. This edition includes a chronology, playwrights' biographies and suggestions for further reading.

This anthology collects sterling examples of the era's tragedies, dramas that both informed and were influenced by Shakespeare's work. Five plays include works by Kyd, Marlowe, Webster, and others.

Arden of Faversham (1592) and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) are both based on chronicles or pamphlets describing authentic murders, while A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) by Thomas Heywood is a fictional creation, considered his masterpiece ...

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.