Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies: The Insatiate Countess/ The Maid’s Tragedy/ The Maiden’s Tragedy/ The Tragedy of Valentinian

Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness, and the plays collected in this volume demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit. The plays included are The Insatiate Countess, The Maid's Tragedy, The Maiden's Tragedy, and The Tragedy of Valentinian.