Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
List of Entries
British Drama, 1533-1566
Supplementary List: Pre-Catalogue Plays Printed or Transcribed
During the Years 1533-1642
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Index of Plays
Martin Wiggins is Senior Scholar of The Shakespeare Institute,
Stratford-upon-Avon. From 1987-1990 he held a Junior Research
Fellowship at Keble College. He has also taught at the University
of Reading, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London, and The
Roehampton Institute. His research interests cover the full corpus
of dramatic works written in the British Isles between the English
Reformation and the English Revolution, including both commercial
and
literary plays, masques and entertainments, and drama in Latin,
Greek, Cornish, and Welsh. In 2006, he won the Calvin and Rose G.
Hoffman Prize for distinguished work on Christopher Marlowe. He
also writes
regularly for the Globe's magazine, Around the Globe, on issues in
dramatic history.
Catherine Richardson is Senior Lecturer in English at the
University of Kent. Her research focuses on focus on the
relationship between texts and the material circumstances of their
production and consumption, and in particular on early modern
domestic life. Previous publications include Domestic Life and
Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England (Manchester University
Press, 2006). She is also the editor of Clothing Culture 1350-1650
(Ashgate, 2004).
Mark Merry is Senior Research Officer on the ESRC funded research
project 'Life in the Suburbs: health, domesticity and status in
early modern London' based at the Centre for Metropolitan History.
The project is being undertaken in collaboration with The Cambridge
Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and
Birkbeck. His research interests are interdisciplinary, and are
principally concerned with urban social groups in London, Bury St
Edmunds and Warwick in the 15th, 16th, and
17th centuries. He also has an interest in the digitisation of
historical sources, and acts as a consultant on a number of
projects generating digital resources.
Another remarkable project... With its wide scope and meticulous
attention to detail, it will be an essential reference work.
*Brian Vickers, The Times Literary Supplement*
outstanding, well-structured, well-researched, and carefully
written. As a resource for, among others, bibliographers, editors,
and book and cultural historians of early modern plays, the
Catalogue, when complete, is likely to be the first point of
reference for many, many years to come.
*N. C. Aldred, The Library*
An extraordinarily useful compendium ... filled with such riches.
Scholars of Renaissance drama will find it to be both useful and
fascinating.
*Garrett A. Sullivan, Studies in English Language*
a remarkable achievement ... ground-breaking ... Wiggins is to be
congratulated for the untiring spirit of enquiry which has
sustained him since the beginning of this century and will see him
through to the completion of his vast enterprise. All students of
English Renaissance drama owe him an incalculable debt. His
Catalogue, I predict, will be one of the first volumes one reaches
for, and one of the last to be put back on the shelf.
*Brian Vickers, The Spenser Review*
Without any doubt this accumulation of information is an
exceptionally valuable contribution for researchers because it
covers such a wide range and also because it addresses critically
many difficult features that arise in the study of the drama of
this period.
*Peter Happé, Early Theatre*
[Wiggins] deserves credit for a breathtaking achievement ...
Because it includes everything with a possible dramatic element
tilts, dialogues, masques, royal entries and royal welcomes the
Catalogue greatly expands the picture of dramatic activity given in
the Annals, emphasizing its collaborative nature ... ideal for
browsing and is full of fascinating details
*Lois Potter, Times Literary Supplement*
I learned something every time I opened this book. Indeed, it is
hard to imagine a reader who would not ... throughout there are
fascinating, illustrative details ... This is a deeply impressive
work and will be a standard reference point for decades to
come.
*Gwilym Jones, Around the Globe*
It is an extraordinary resource, and we now have a database ...
which can tell us everything at a glance about every piece of
extant drama from the period ... It is a resource that any serious
student of the period will use routinely from now on, and its
influence on future work and understanding of Renaissance drama
will be very interesting to chart. It is a heroic, landmark piece
of scholarly study, and, one suspects, will ensure that 'Wiggins'
becomes a household name among graduate students of the period the
world over.
*Will Sharpe, The Shakespeare Bookshop Newsletter*
The arrangement of the volume is refreshingly determined by "the
common-sense principle" ... when complete, [the set] will be the
definitive work on its subject ... Essential.
*W. Baker, Northern Illinois University, CHOICE*
The Cataolgue is therefore bound to have a significant impact both
on teaching and research in the fields of Shakespeare and early
modern drama ... [it] will prove immensely useful to scholars and
students alike.
*Sonia Massai, Shakespeare Survey*
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