Table of Contents

Preface; A note on dates, references and quotations; Abbreviations; 1. Playhouses and players R. A. Foakes; 2. The arts of the dramatist A. R. Braunmuller; 3. Drama and society Michael Hattaway; 4. Private and occasional drama Martin Butler; 5. Political drama Margot Heinemann; 6. Romance and the heroic play Brian Gibbons; 7. Pastiche, burlesque, tragicomedy Lee Bliss; 8. Comedy Jill Levenson; 9. Tragedy Robert Watson; 10. Caroline drama James Bulman; Biographies and selected bibliography A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway; Chronological table.

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For this second edition, all the essays have been revised and updated.

Reviews

"An intelligent compilation of current knowledge and hypotheses in the field of Renaissance drama, it is a valuable corrective to existing handbooks...The ten essays cover a lot of ground with a minimum of duplication...Most readers will discover some fresh insights into the work of major dramatists." - Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Michael Shapiro "In its newly revised form, this work solidifies its status as the best single-volume introduction to the non-Shakespearean English drama of the later Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline periods." - Sixteenth Century Journal, Arnold W. Preussner, Truman State University