Six Plays By Contemporaries Of Shakespeare (1915)

""Six Plays By Contemporaries Of Shakespeare"" is a collection of six plays written by playwrights who lived and wrote during the same period as William Shakespeare. The book was first published in 1915 and is edited by Charles B. Wheeler. The six plays included in this collection are ""The Shoemaker's Holiday"" by Thomas Dekker, ""Eastward Ho!"" by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, ""The Revenger's Tragedy"" by Cyril Tourneur, ""A Woman Killed with Kindness"" by Thomas Heywood, ""The Witch of Edmonton"" by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, and John Ford, and ""The Knight of the Burning Pestle"" by Francis Beaumont. Each play is introduced with a brief overview of the author's life and work, and the book includes notes and glossaries to aid in understanding the language and context of the plays. This collection provides a fascinating glimpse into the theatrical world of Shakespeare's contemporaries and their contributions to the English Renaissance drama.The Shoemaker�������s Holiday By Dekker; The White Devil By Webster; The Knight Of The Burning Pestle And Philaster By Beaumont And Fletcher; The Duchess Of Malfi By Webster; A New Way To Pay Old Debts By Massinger.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.