This book gives a comprehensive account of recent scholarship on English plays and playwrights, exclusive of Shakespeare. It includes plays and playwrights of b

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This book provides a detailed study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. Between 1603

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