The Twelfth-Century Story of Daniel for Performance by Hilarius: An...
This article introduces Hilarius’s underappreciated work Historia de Daniel Representanda [The Story of Daniel for Performance] to a wider readership by translating it into English for the first time....
View ArticleA New Context for the Manuscript of Wit and Science
John Redford’s interlude The Play of Wit and Science (ca 1540) is surrounded in British Library Additional Manuscript 15233 by a rarely noted collection of music, poems, and song lyrics by Redford,...
View ArticleJohn a Kent, the Wise Man of Westchester
Anthony Munday’s John a Kent and John a Cumber should be dated to the mid-1590s, not 1590. I argue that it is the same play as The Wise Man of Westchester, presented by the Admiral’s Men in 1594. The...
View Article'Bogus History' and Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
In this paper I focus on Greene’s Elizabethan comedy, which David Bevington has referred to as containing ‘bogus history’. I argue that Greene embraced the history he inherited. The play contains...
View Article‘The cunning of their ground’: The Relevance of Sejanus to Renaissance Tragedy
Modelled on contemporary metatheatrical tragedies such as Tamburlaine and Richard III, Sejanus is Jonson’s riposte to these rebellious innovations to tragedy illustrating that his peers have failed to...
View ArticleSound, Vision, and Representation: Pageantry in 1610 Chester
This article examines a civic entertainment staged in Chester in 1610. It explores how visual, verbal, and aural elements of the event contributed to its construction of popular and elite responses,...
View ArticleSituating Ben Jonson: The Cambridge Edition of the Works
This review essay discusses The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson.
View ArticleNew Directions in Jonson Scholarship
This review essay considers recent work on Ben Jonson.
View ArticleJessica Dell, David Klausner, and Helen Ostovich (eds). The Chester Cycle in...
This review considers The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575: Religion, Drama, and the Impact of Change.
View ArticleChristopher Marlow. Performing Masculinity in English University Drama,...
This review considers Performing Masculinity in English University Drama, 1598-1636.
View ArticleVerena Theile and Andrew D. McCarthy, eds. Staging the Superstitions of Early...
This review considers Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe.
View ArticleJulian Bowsher. Shakespeare’s London Theatreland: Archaeology, History, and...
This review considers Shakespeare's London Theatreland: Archaeology, History, and Drama and The Hope Playhouse, Animal Baiting and Later Industrial Activity at Bear Gardens on Bankside: Excavations at...
View ArticleLukas Erne. Shakespeare and the Book Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University...
This review considers Shakespeare and the Book Trade and Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist.
View ArticleLynn S. Meskill. Ben Jonson and Envy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,...
This review considers Ben Jonson and Envy.
View ArticleDavid Nicol. Middleton & Rowley: Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean...
This review considers Middleton & Rowley: Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse.
View ArticleMark Bayer. Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London. Iowa...
This review considers Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London.
View ArticleDeborah Uman and Sara Morrison (eds). Staging the Blazon in Early Modern...
This review considers Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theatre.
View ArticleGilles Monsarrat, Brian Vickers and R. J. C. Watt (eds). The Collected Works...
This review considers The Collected Works of John Ford, Vol. 1.
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