This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays: * (Thomas Kyd) (Anon.) (Christopher Marlowe) (Thomas Heywood) (Elizabeth Cary) (Ben Jonson) (Francis Beaumont) (Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker) (Thomas Middleton & William Rowley) (John Ford). Each play is prefaced by an introductory headnote discussing the thematic focus of the play and its textual history, and is cross-referenced to other plays of the period that relate thematically and generically. An accompanying website contains a wide selection of contextual documents which supplement the anthology: