The book reads Tudor-Stuart comedies in order to illuminate the problems and promises of achieving manhood because comedies permit public scrutiny of what might

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance features essays questioning the extent to which education, an activity pursued

The book examines how gentility was portrayed at London's theatres during the early modern era.

In this essay collection, the contributors contend that academic drama represents an important, but heretofore understudied, site of cultural production in earl

The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social