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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

Articles
Thierry and Theodoret: Censorship, Allegory and Plausible Deniability
Richard Dutton
“In rugged verse vile matters to contain”: The Devil’s Charter as Antipasquinade
James Mardock
The Origins of Repertory in English Drama, or, How to Find Needles in Haystacks
Laurie Johnson
Not like the Others: The Three Lords and Ladies of London and the Queen’s Men Repertory
Erin Kelly
Was Christopher Marlowe a Capitalist?: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament, The Jew of Malta, and Stories of Economic Change
Bradley Ryner
The Wars of Cyrus: Date and Authorship, and Why They Matter
Michael J. Hirrel
“Gone and Loste”: Tracing Philip Henslowe’s 1598 Theatrical Inventories
Anouska Lester
Q1 Hamlet and its Compilers
Brian Vickers
Authorship Attributions in the Fletcher Canon
Darren Freebury-Jones

Reviews
Harry R. McCarthy, Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Valerie Billing
Noémie Ndiaye, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race, RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Dennis Britton
Darren Freebury-Jones, Shakespeare’s Tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.
Christopher Crosbie
Mark Kaethler, Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
David Nicol
Caroline Bicks, Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World: Rethinking Female Adolescence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Bethany Packard
Urvashi Chakravarty, Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Elizabeth Rivlin
Emma Lipton, Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Jeffrey G. Stoyanoff

Product details

Published Oct 15 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781683934295
Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Dimensions 0 x 0 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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