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What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask

Through short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book provides the first ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama.

This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criticism. The editors’ introduction—a fa

This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display