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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Mermaids
One of the nineteenth century's most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde's plays. Treating political intrigue, financial fraud, blackmail, scandal and spin, and the role of women in public life, it is a play which engaged with i ...Show more
Ben Jonson: Four Plays by Ben Jonson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Mermaids
Bringing together four of the most popular and widely studied of Ben Jonson's plays, this anthology focuses on the city comedies for which Jonson is best known today: The Alchemist (edited by Elizabeth Cook), Volpone (edited by Robert N. Watson), Bartholmew Fair (edited by G.R. Hibbard) and Epicoene or ...Show more
Duchess of Malfi, The by John Webster
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: New Mermaids
A major revision of this classic revenge tragedy. The comprehensive introduction covers recent developments in criticism and key theatre productions, as well as relating the play to other early modern tragedies. The edition gives students and teachers a reliable, annotated text and a stimulating overvie ...Show more
The Country Wife by William Wycherley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Mermaids
'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the adulterous alike. It features a country wife, Margery, whose husband believes she is too naive to cuckold him; ...Show more
Thomas Middleton: Four Plays: Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Mermaids
This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton's plays - Women Beware Women; The Changeling; The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - with a new introduction by William Carroll, examining the plays in the context of early modern theatre, ...Show more
Women on the Early Modern Stage: Woman Killed with Kindness, The Tamer Tamed, The Duchess of Malfi, The Witch of Edmonton by Emma Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Mermaids
This New Mermaids anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster) and The Witch of Edmonton (William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford) with a new ...Show more
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