Four Jacobean sex tragedies (Record no. 15051)
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| fixed length control field | 01662cam a2200181ua 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0192823205 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 822.0512083538 |
| Item number | FOU |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Four Jacobean sex tragedies |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year of publication | 1998 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxxix,427p. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Oxford World's Classics |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | William Barksted and Lewis Machin- The Insatiate Countess<br/>Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher- The Maid's Tragedy<br/>Thomas Middleton- The Maiden's Tragedy<br/>John Fletcher- The Tragedy of Valentinian |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness, and the plays collected in this volume demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit. The Insatiate Countess (1610), by William Barksted and Lewis Machin from a draft by John Marston, is a study in obsessive nymphomania and the reprisals taken by the male establishment. The Maid's Tragedy (1611) by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, reveals dark sexual secrets at the heart of the royal court, and emphasizes the political instability which ensues their discovery. Thomas Middleton's The Maiden's Tragedy (1611) provides an overtly Christian dimension to the conflict between lust and chastity, and John Fletcher's The Tragedy of Valentinian (1614) is a chilling portrayal of rape as the exercise of absolute power. Each play raises difficult questions about conventional moral and social attitudes to sexuality which remain relevant today. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | English Drama |
| 650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | English Literature |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wiggins, Martin, ed. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 23/05/2014 | 475.00 | 822.0512083538 FOU | 15591 | BK |