This volume explores the multiple connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. Involving both French and British

In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England, Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of “the theatrical.” By revealing the creative and phenomenal

Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion an

Early modern Britain witnessed a transformation in legal reasoning about human volition and intentional action. Examining the relation between law and theater i

An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which