Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies: William Barksted and Lewis Machin: The Insatiate Countess; Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: The Maid's Tragedy; Thomas Middleton: The Maiden's Tragedy; John Fletcher: The Tragedy of Valentinian
Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies: William Barksted and Lewis Machin: The Insatiate Countess; Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: The Maid's Tragedy; Thomas Middleton: The Maiden's Tragedy; John Fletcher: The Tragedy of Valentinian
Jacobean tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and 17th-century social, cultural, and political values with an exceptional frankness. The plays collected here demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit. Included are THE INSATIATE COUNTESS, THE MAID'S TRAGEDY, THE MAIDEN'S TRAGEDY, and THE TRAGEDY OF VALENTINIAN.
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Jacobean tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and 17th-century social, cultural, and political values with an exceptional frankness. The plays collected here demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit. Included are THE INSATIATE COUNTESS, THE MAID'S TRAGEDY, THE MAIDEN'S TRAGEDY, and THE TRAGEDY OF VALENTINIAN.
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