Women Beware Women: A critical guide

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Thomas Middleton's intense study of betrayal, corruption, lust and violence, "Women Beware Women", is one of the revenge tragedies most commonly studied and performed. This guide offers an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, audio and film versions and dramatic and text adaptations.

Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English at Bangor University, UK.

This comprehensive collection of essays, beginning with Andrew Hiscock's historical account of Women Beware Women, combines fresh research, provocative new interpretations and a useful account of performances of one of Middleton's most powerful plays. Such established scholars as Helen Wilcox, Robert C. Evans and Coppelia Kahn join new voices for pioneering work on a major English playwright. -- Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amhers, USA Women Beware Women: A Critical Guide provides a comprehensive critical and historical overview of the play, as well as views on the genre, the teaching of the text, and the performance techniques employed in staging the play. -- Gul Kurtulus * Sixteenth Century Journal *