Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
A Note about the Text and Previous Editions
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cast of Characters
A Warning for Fair Women
Appendix Arthur Golding's A briefe discourse of the late Murther of master George Sanders
John Stow's The Annales of England Faithfully Collected
Ballad, "The wofull lamentacon [sic] of Mrs. Anne Saunders"
Excerpts of Dorothy Leigh's The Mother's Blessing Notes
Bibliography
Index
