A reference book which indexes all the characters who appear in English drama from 1500 to 1660.

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The F

Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in ea

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

The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social