Table of Contents

Hamlet's Northern Lineage: Masculinity, Climate, and the Mechanician in Early Modern Britain, by Daryl W. Palmer; ""Divided in soyle"": Plantation and Degeneracy in The Tempest and The Sea Voyage, by Jean Feerick; ""Euery soyle to mee is naturall"": Figuring Denization in William Haughton's English-men for My Money, by Alan Stewart; The Actor's Inhibition: Early Modern Acting and the Rhetoric of Restraint, by Paul Menzer; Understanding in the Elizabethan Theaters, by William N. West; Eating Air, Feeling Smells: Hamlet's Theory of Performance, by Carolyn Sale; All Swell That End Swell: Dropsy, Phantom Pregnancy, and the Sound of Deconception in All's Well That Ends Well, by Jonathan Gil Harris; The Devil's in the Archive: Doctor Faustus and Ovidean Physics, by Kristen Poole.

About the Author

Mary Floyd-Wilson is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge, 2003) and co-editor with Gail Kern Paster and Katherine Rowe of Reading the Early Modern Passions: A Cultural History of Emotion (Pennsylvania, 2004). Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. is associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is most recently the author of Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster (Cambridge, 2005) and co-editor with Patrick Cheney and Andrew Hadfield of Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion (Oxford, 2006).