{"product_id":"arden-of-faversham-9780713677652","title":"Arden of Faversham","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title\u003cbr\u003epage, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays\u003cbr\u003escandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the\u003cbr\u003etitle advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman'\u003cbr\u003eand her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the unknown playwright\u003cbr\u003ewith great dramatic skill and psychological insight manages to balance\u003cbr\u003ethe motivations of all the main characters. Thomas Arden, one of the\u003cbr\u003erapacious landlords so reviled in mid-Elizabethan social drama, was\u003cbr\u003emurdered at his own house in Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His murderers, \u003cbr\u003eit turned out, had been hired by his wife Alice, thrall to Mosby, who\u003cbr\u003ehoped to rise socially by marrying a rich widow. As the introduction to\u003cbr\u003ethis edition shows, sexual and material covetousness is the central\u003cbr\u003etheme running through the play, which is commonly rated 'unquestionably\u003cbr\u003ethe best of all Elizabethan domestic tragedies'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Tom Lockwood, Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis article The Sheridans at Work' was awarded \u003ci\u003eThe Review of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e Essay Prize and his book \u003ci\u003eBen Jonson in the Romantic Age\u003c\/i\u003e is published by Oxford University Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911238816018,"sku":"9780713677652","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6c5e7901-8590-4ad6-8b8d-096e12841357.jpg?v=1738735144","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/arden-of-faversham-9780713677652","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}