This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically

This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or ge

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to ear

Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In cont