Among the dramatists who wrote for the professional playhouses of early modern London was a small group of writers who were neither members of the commercial th

Using a range of familiar and lesser-known print and manuscript plays, as well as literary accounts and documentary evidence, Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespea

Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory. How have Shakespeare’s audie

Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

Here art thou real Shakespeare. The resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays - largely due to recent film adaptations - has reminded the world that Shakesp