As well as 'play-makers' and 'poets', playwrights of the early modern period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made from separate documents

The essays in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England explore maternity's textual and cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequen

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries and interprets features of page display (

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama

The eleven essays in this volume explore the complex interactions in early modern England between a technologically advanced culture of the printed book and a s