There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period because of their exclusion from professional

Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical and non-canonical texts within the scope

In the field of seventeenth-century English drama, women participated not only as spectators or readers, but more and more as patronesses, as playwrights, and l

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Brings toget

Offering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage was 'all male' in