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A Warning for Fair Women : Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theater, Paperback / softback Book

A Warning for Fair Women : Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theater Paperback / softback

Edited by Ann C. Christensen

Part of the Early Modern Cultural Studies series

Paperback / softback

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A Warning for Fair Women is a 1599 true-crime drama from the repertory of Shakespeare’s acting company.

While important to literary scholars and theater historians, it is also readable, relevant, and stage-worthy today.

Dramatizing the murder of London merchant George Saunders by his wife’s lover, and the trials and executions of the murderer and accomplices, it also sheds light on neighborhood and domestic life and crime and punishment. This edition of A Warning for Fair Women is fully updated, featuring a lively and extensive introduction and covering topics from authorship and staging to the 2018 world revival of the play in the United States.

It includes a section with discussion and research questions along with resources on topics raised by the play, from beauty and women’s friendship to the occult.

Ann C. Christensen presents a freshly edited text for today’s readers, with in-depth explanatory notes, scene summaries, a gallery of period images, and full scholarly apparatus.  

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