The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama

RONALD HUEBERT is Professor of English at Dalhousie University and Carnegie Professor at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the current editor of The Dalhousie Review, the author of John Ford: Baroque English Dramatist and the editor of James Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure in the Revels series.

Bibliographical Note Preface Interpreting Pleasure Tobacco and Boys: Christopher Marlowe A Shrew Yet Honest: Ben Jonson The Adverse Body: John Marston One Wench Between Them: Thomas Heywood, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Impossible Desire: John Webster An Art That Has No Name: Thomas Middleton Endless Dreams: John Ford Conclusion Bibliography Index