Generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, The Maid's Tragedy then disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered and very successful Victorian adaptation) until recent years, when major companies have rediscovered its appeal.
In this fully annotated edition, the editor has given careful attention to the sense of the lines, the stage action and the verse. Many new readings, as well as improvements in stage directions and lineation, are either introduced...