Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness. The plays collected here demonstrate Jacobean Tragedy at its most sinister and explicit. Contains: The Insatiate Countess (1610), by William Barksted and Lewis Machin from a draft by John Marston; The Maid's Tragedy (1611) by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher; Thomas Middleton's The Maiden's Tragedy (1611), and John Fletcher's The Tragedy of Valentinian (1614).