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Volume 38 of a continuing academic journal dedicated to research in the field of early drama and theatrical studies.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theater history to 1642. An internationally recognized board of scholars oversees the publication of MaRDiE. Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of early drama will find that the journal publishes wide-ranging discussions not only of plays and early performance history, but of topics pertaining to cultural history, as well as manuscript studies and the history of printing.
Table of Contents
SHAKESPEARE AND MEMENTO MORI: ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES
Remember (Me)
Sarah R.A. Waters, Sterling College, US
Macbeth, Herod, and the Ars Moriendi
Grace Tiffany, Western Michigan University, US
“Now Die, Die, Die, Die, Die!” Dicing as Memento Mori in Shakespeare's Early Comedies
Nora L. Corrigan, Mississippi University for Women, US
Dig This: Hamlet and the Gravedigger
Joe Ricke, Taylor University, US
Shakespearean Meditations on Death, Beauty, and Art: “a sea change / Into something rich and strange”
Tiffany Schubert, Wyoming Catholic College, US
The Female Body as Memento Mori in King Lear
Susan Dunn-Hensley, Wheaton College, US
ARTICLES
“The boone Delphic god / Drinks sack”: Ben Jonson and the Canary Quarrels
Victoria M. Muñoz, Adelphi University, US
The Well-Traveled Translator-Knight Who Wrote the Ur-Hamlet
June Schlueter (Lafayette College, US) and Dennis McCarthy (independent scholar)
Silence in Shakespeare's Richard II
David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas, US
Intercessor or Nag? Reimagining the Female Saint of Medieval Drama in Shakespeare's Problem Plays
Hannah Elizabeth Bowling, Lincoln University of Missouri, US
Women with Weapons on the Early Modern Stage
Leslie Thomson, University of Toronto, Canada
REVIEWS
Bradley J. Irish, Disgust in Shakespeare: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion, London: Bloomsbury, 2023.
Paul Budra, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Katherine Schapp Williams, Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theatre, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021.
Katey Roden, Gonzaga University, US
Roberta Kwan, Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self, Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Jay Zysk, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Product details
| Published | 11 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781683939863 |
| Imprint | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Illustrations | 2 bw |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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