{"product_id":"9781408144749","title":"Arden of Faversham","description":"This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title\u003cbr\u003epage, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays\u003cbr\u003escandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the\u003cbr\u003etitle advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman'\u003cbr\u003eand her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the unknown playwright\u003cbr\u003ewith great dramatic skill and psychological insight manages to balance\u003cbr\u003ethe motivations of all the main characters. Thomas Arden, one of the\u003cbr\u003erapacious landlords so reviled in mid-Elizabethan social drama, was\u003cbr\u003emurdered at his own house in Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His murderers,\u003cbr\u003eit turned out, had been hired by his wife Alice, thrall to Mosby, who\u003cbr\u003ehoped to rise socially by marrying a rich widow. As the introduction to\u003cbr\u003ethis edition shows, sexual and material covetousness is the central\u003cbr\u003etheme running through the play, which is commonly rated 'unquestionably\u003cbr\u003ethe best of all Elizabethan domestic tragedies'.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138021146864,"sku":"9781408144749","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408144749_p0.jpg?v=1763718113","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408144749","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}