Book description
Three unique, out of the ordinary and highly entertaining plays. Gammer Gurton’s Needle is an anarchic, scatological entertainment within the classical five-act structure, Roister Doister is Roman comedy masterfully adapted to the moral aims of Humanistic education, while The Old Wife’s Tale is an extraordinary combination of dream-like enchantment and farce.
This edition includes full modern-spelling texts, copious annotation, and an introductory essay covering authorship, staging, the literary and dramatic context, and a critical assessment.
