The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd and Other Plays

A Collier's Friday Night The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd The Daughter-in-Law The Fight for Barbara Touch and Go Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works.

The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the play's cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should reshape the canon in a number of significant areas.

A splendid and imaginative project.' Anne Barton, Canbridge University.