A debate about the relationship between playgoing and the cultural life of Shakespeare's England.

Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional or cultural

The last two decades have witnessed a profound change in the way we receive the literary texts of early modern England. One could call this a move from 'text' t

Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a new approach to evaluating the psychological 'loss' of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation Eng

This book analyses the drama of memory in Shakespeare's history plays. Situating the plays in relation to the extra-dramatic contexts of early modern print cult