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Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England
Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors …
Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
"Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early-modern Scotland" analyses narrative accounts of public theatricality in late medieval and early-modern Scottish culture …
Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England
Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms current understanding of early modern revenge tragedy. Examing the genre in …
Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet
Through exciting and unconventional approaches, including critical/historical, printing/publishing and performance studies, this study mines Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to …
Plotting Early Modern London
With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their 'official …
Comic Print and Theatre in Early Modern Amsterdam
Late-17th-century Amsterdam saw the emergence of a range of printed pictures marketed specifically for children. Like the farcical plays from the city's theatre tradition, these …
Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger
The playwrights composing for the London stage between 1580 and 1642 repeatedly staged plays-within and other metatheatrical inserts. Such works present fictionalized spectators as …
Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage
Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The …
The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage
Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been …
The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
In the early seventeenth century, the London stage often portrayed a ruler covertly spying on his subjects. Traditionally deemed 'Jacobean disguised ruler plays', these works …
Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre
Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart …
Thomas Heywood's Theatre, 1599–1639
In this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood-playwright, miscellanist and translator-to his rightful place in early modern theatre history. …