This text explores the perceived discrepancy between outward appearance and inward disposition which, it argues, influenced the work of many English Renaissance

Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here—by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many others—reveal why these

Presents a study of political theater in the English Renaissance, discussing the differences between a public playhouse and a private, or court theater, and loo

This book throws new light on the complexity and variety of practices which may be defined as 'theatrical' in a broad sense in sixteenth- and seventeenth-centur

Collection of essays which engages debates over gender in the English Renaissance theater--Cover.