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

The thirteen essays collected in 'This Earthly Stage' explore intersections between the world as stage and the stage as world in late medieval and early modern

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

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