Three revenge tragedies /
Three Jacobean tragedies
edited with an introduction by Gāmini Salgādo.
- London : Penguin, 2004.
- 368 p. ; 20 cm.
- Penguin classics .
This collection originally published: as Three Jacobean tragedies. 1965.
Contents: The revenger's tragedy / Cyril Tourneur - The white devil / John Webster - The changeling / Thomas Middleton.
Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early 17th century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile ground for the dramatists of the age whose plays explore the ways in which social decadence and the abuse of power breed resentment.