Martin White

Tom Lockwood

This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman' and her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the unknown playwright with great dramatic skill and psychological insight manages to balance the motivations of all the main characters. Thomas Arden, one of the rapacious landlords so reviled in mid-Elizabethan social drama, was murdered at his own house in Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His murderers, it turned out, had been hired by his wife Alice, thrall to Mosby, who hoped to rise socially by marrying a rich widow. As the introduction to this edition shows, sexual and material covetousness is the central theme running through the play, which is commonly rated 'unquestionably the best of all Elizabethan domestic tragedies'.

Arden of Faversham

Bray Jones

Slick effects for your Web page! This book shows readers how to exploit HTML, graphic formats, and browser specific tags to achieve cool effects with little time investment. It is the only book of this type that concentrates on tips and techniques, not Web page design. All the examples in the book are included on the CD, so readers can use the examples on their pages.

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