Through short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book provides the first ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama.

Through short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book provides the first-ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama.

This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically

This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practices of edit

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to ear