{"product_id":"a-woman-killed-with-kindness-and-other-domestic-plays","title":"A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003eArden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller  In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and politicians.  His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of 'domestic' drama, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of\n\u003cbr\u003emarriage, crime, and property rather than war and power. Arden dramatizes a notorious murder case of forty years earlier, in which a wealthy husband was killed by his wife and her lover.  In Thomas Heywood's\n\u003cbr\u003eA Woman Killed with Kindness, a wife is caught by her husband in bed with his best friend, only to find that he takes unusual reprisals.  The Witch of Edmonton combines a true-life story of witchcraft with a fictitious tale of bigamy and wife-murder, and The English Traveller deals with the unexpected and unwelcome changes people find when they return home after a lengthy absence.  Part of the Oxford English Drama series, this edition has\n\u003cbr\u003emodern-spelling texts; a critical introduction that outlines the way all four plays raise powerful and complex questions about the English society in which their tragic events unfold; wide-ranging notes; a chronology of the plays from\n\u003cbr\u003etheir sources to recent performance; and appendices relating to two of the plays: who wrote Arden of Faversham and when did Heywood write The English Traveller.  ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions\n\u003cbr\u003eby leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46060232802542,"sku":"9780192829504","price":27.02,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780192829504.jpg?v=1736508641","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/a-woman-killed-with-kindness-and-other-domestic-plays","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}