Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 12John Pitcher Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare. |
Contents
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Campaspe and the Construction of Monarchical Power | 57 |
Tarlton in The Famous History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 82 |
The Status of Charity in Thomas Heywoods If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody II | 97 |
Jonson Dekker and the Discourse of Chivalry | 119 |
Richard Norwood Youth in Transition and Early Response to Dr Faustus | 164 |
Circe Ulysses and William Browne of Tavistock | 188 |
Middletons The Witch the Populuxe Market and the Politics of the Theater | 216 |
The Wisewoman of Hogsdon The English Traveller The Captives | 313 |
Margreta de Grazia Maureen Quilligan Peter Stallybrass eds Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture | 316 |
Contested Representation in Shakespeares Tragedies | 321 |
Contemporary Critical Essays | 328 |
Curtis C Breight Surveillance Militarism and Drama in the Elizabethan Era | 332 |
James N Loehlin Henry V Shakespeare in Performance series | 336 |
Domestic Plays of Early Modern England | 343 |
David Bevington ed John Lyly Endymion and Sappho and Phao GK Hunter ed Campaspe | 348 |
Bringing in a Persian | 234 |
15851642 | 266 |
Reviews | 291 |
Subjectivity Discourse and the Stage | 293 |
Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern England | 297 |
Language Culture Context | 302 |
Theater in the Stuart Court 16031613 | 308 |
Warriors Wounds and Women | 351 |
An Anthology of Criticism | 357 |
Anthony B Dawson Hamlet Shakespeare in Performance series | 362 |
John D Cox and David Scott Kastan A New History of Early English Drama | 373 |
Lorraine Helms Seneca by Candlelight Other Stories of Renaissance Drama | 380 |
Index | 385 |
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