New Directions in Early Modern English Drama

Aidan Norrie, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Foreword: The Stage on the Shore by Lisa Hopkins

Introduction: Edges, Spaces, and Intersections in Early Modern English Drama by Aidan Norrie and Mark Houlahan



Part I. Edges

A Life on the Edge: Richard Bradshaw by Paul Brown

"Thou Dream’st Awake": Ghosts and Sleep in Chapman's Antonio’s Revenge and Marston's Bussy D’Ambois by Chloe Owen

Canting Queer Ken: Stage Magic and the Edge of Knowledge by Adam Hembree

James Shirley at the Edge of Town by Mark Houlahan



Part 2. Spaces

"Our Queen is Comming to the Town": Child Actors and Counsel in the Elizabethan Progresses of 1574 and 1578 by Aidan Norrie

"And Huh, Too / For All Your Big Words!": Language and Multiculturalism in Philip Massinger’s The Renegado by Sophie Emma Battell

Inherited Insecurities and the Staging of Alterity: Islam in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine by Jeffrey McCambridge

"The End of All": How a Forgotten Map Helped Us Forget Newington Butts by Laurie Johnson



Part 3. Intersections

Hamlet’s French Philosophy by Jennifer Nicholson

"Then Turn Tail to Tail and Peace Be with You": John Fletcher’s The Woman’s Prize, or The Tamer Tamed, Menippean Satire and Same-Sex Desire by John Severn

"Whose Plot Was This?": Shakespearean Convergences in Fletcher's The Wild Goose Chase by Gabriella Edelstein

"They Always Speak Things as They Would Have Them": Aspirational Royalist Politics in Henry Killigrew's Pallantus and Eudora (1653) by Christopher Orchard



Notes on Contributors

Index of Persons, Places and Subjects