The efforts in Jacobean England to unify England and Scotland included dynastic marriages, which were carried out with extraordinary preparation and pomp, as described in this superb study by Curran (
A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years la
The Chester Cycle is a remarkable suite of medieval mystery plays, created by and for the people of Chester, England, a city founded by the ancient Romans and occupied until the present day. These pla
Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and po
Pageantry in sixteenth and seventeenth century London played a major role in civic life not merely as spectacle but as a means of formulating, articulating, and often transforming civic identity. Civi
Restoration Staging 1660-74 cuts through received notions of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts. Tim Keenan demonstrates that these oft-ignored pla
This is a study of the role of disguise devices in early modern English drama that focuses on the theatrical or material performance of spectacle of disguise, which Hyland (early modern literature and
James Shirley was the last great dramatist of the English Renaissance, shining out among other luminaries such as John Ford, Ben Jonson, or Richard Brome. This collection considers Shirley within the
Schneider (U. of Manchester, England) examines the opening and closing addresses to the audience that bracketed many early modern English plays, dramatic elements that he is surprised to find little s
The issue of early modern European women on the professional stage is profoundly linked with, and usefully considered in conjunction with, the performative marketing of medicine and cosmetics, suggest
Among Shakespeare's most neglected plays, says King (English and drama, Queen U. of London), Cymbeline is not a courtly romance, a royalist apology, or a warning about Scots, as previous critics would
Immigrants from the Low Countries constituted the largest population of resident aliens in early modern England. Possessing superior technology in a number of fields and enjoying governmental protecti
