Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. I. Critical Backgrounds 1
5. II. Popular Theology 6
6. III. Nondramatic Literature 26
7. IV. Morality Plays 54
8. V. Plays from Legend and History 75
9. VI. Sixteenth-Century Murder Plays 100
10. VII. Seventeenth-Century Murder Plays 126
11. VIII. Thomas Heywood’s “A Woman Killed with Kindness” 144
12. IX. The Decline of Domestic Tragedies 160
13. X. Conclusion 184
14. Appendix A. Lost Domestic Tragedies 193
15. Appendix B. Heywood and Brome’s “The Late Lancashire Witches” 204
16. Bibliography 207
17. Index 221