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Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response, as well as providing a new account of English drama in these important but largely neglected years. -- .

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Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Erne shows how Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries was formed -- .

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Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a 'pattern and precedent' for the golden generation of early modern playwrights. -- .

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This is a collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when England was nominally a republic or commonwealth. The texts illustrate how the dramatists devised new aesthetics in response to the ideological concerns of the Republic.

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Modern-spelling edition of the two works, allows the twenty-first century reader access to this culturally significant text. -- .

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A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity.

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A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity. -- .

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Examines Fletchers Roman plays and identifies disorientation as the unifying principle of his portrayal of imperial Rome. The book sheds new light on his intellectual life by arguing that his dramatization of Rome exudes a sense of scepticism over the authority of Roman models resulting from his irreverent approach to the classics.

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During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. -- .

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During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. -- .

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With reproduction of original title page: Pappe with an hatchet: alias, A figge for my god sonne, or, Cracke me this nut, or, A countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning / written by one that dares call a dog, a dog, and made to prevent Martins dog daies.

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Now available in paperback, this edition constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over one hundred wills left by those who participate in the life of the theatre - from actors and dramatists to carpenters and costumiers. -- .

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Offers a groudbreaking and authoritative account of the life and works of Richard Brome, the leading comic playwright of 1630s London - reconstructs the chronology of his career from manservant to successful professional dramatist and beyond, and discusses all his comedies, including the two best-known plays, 'A Jovial Crew' and 'The Antipodes'.

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Blending theatre history and sensory studies this book recaptures the sound of early modern drama, acknowledging its intangibility while attempting to both describe those sounds heard on the stage and to try and identify those sounds effects on the playgoers.

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The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character -- .

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The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character -- .

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Focuses on the work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. This book includes Edwards' play, "Damon and Pythias", his poems, together with a number of original musical settings.

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Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, non-literary, non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashes use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, and his textual legacy.

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This volume brings together three plays that convey the fascination in early 17th century England with travel and exploration. They are all dramas of adventure and they explore the diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial expansion and to challenges posed by the encounter with exotic places and peoples.

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Binds cupid, metamorphoses, harmony, the body politic and an exploration of love, lust, chastity, food and anatomy.

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This volume brings together three late sixteenth-century popular stage romances of travel and conquest in the Muslim East. The plays are introduced, contextualised and edited for the first time in a modern-spelling edition. -- .

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A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'. -- .

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Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being. -- .