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This volume offers the first in-depth investigation of Thomas Heywood’s engagement with the classics. Its introduction and twelve essays trace how the classic

A collection of essays concerned with aspects of dramatic form in works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

This collection of nine original essays, is a major study of the 1616 Folio as a work of art, as a turning point in Jonson's career, and as an unprecedented eve

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