Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dekker’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* 27 plays, with individual contents tables
* Features many rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the plays were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare pamphlets available in no other collection
* Special criticism section, with two essays evaluating Dekker’s contribution to history of the theatre
* Features two bonus biographies – discover Dekker’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Solo Plays
The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599)
Old Fortunatus (1600)
Lust’s Dominion (c. 1600)
The Weakest Goeth to the Wall (1600)
The Noble Spanish Soldier (c. 1602)
The Whore of Babylon (1607)
If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil is in It (1611)
Troja-Nova Triumphans (1612)
The Welsh Ambassador (1623)
London’s Tempe (1629)
The Honest Whore, Part II (1630)
Match Me in London (1631)
The Wonder of a Kingdom (1634)
The Collaborative Plays
Satiro-Mastix (1601)
Blurt, Master Constable (1602)
Patient Grissil (1603)
The Honest Whore, Part I (1604)
The Magnificent Entertainment (1604)
The Family of Love (c. 1607)
Northward Ho (1607)
Westward Ho (1607)
The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607)
The Roaring Girl (1610)
The Witch of Edmonton (1621)
The Virgin-Martyr (1622)
The Sun’s Darling (1624)
The Bloody Banquet (1639)
The Prose
Selected Pamphlets
The Criticism
Thomas Dekker by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dekker by Andrew Lang
The Biographies
Thomas Dekker by Ernest Rhys
Thomas Dekker by Arthur Henry Bullen