{"product_id":"arden-of-faversham-playtext","title":"Arden of Faversham Playtext","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epage, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003escandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etitle advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the unknown playwright \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith great dramatic skill and psychological insight manages to balance \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe motivations of all the main characters. Thomas Arden, one of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erapacious landlords so reviled in mid-Elizabethan social drama, was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emurdered at his own house in Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His murderers, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit turned out, had been hired by his wife Alice, thrall to Mosby, who \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehoped to rise socially by marrying a rich widow. As the introduction to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethis edition shows, sexual and material covetousness is the central \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etheme running through the play, which is commonly rated 'unquestionably \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe best of all Elizabethan domestic tragedies'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"National Theatre Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55631474426232,"sku":"9780713677652","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0257\/9562\/5032\/files\/ArdenofFavershamPlaytextNationalTheatreShop.jpg?v=1787586609","url":"https:\/\/shop.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/zh-hans\/products\/arden-of-faversham-playtext","provider":"National Theatre Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}