Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time, first published in 2011, examines the nature of commercial relations among the theatre companies in London

Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal

Showing how overlooked publication agents constructed and read early modern history plays, this book fundamentally re-evaluates the genre.

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This book compares the theatrical cultures of early modern England and Spain and explores the causes and consequences not just of the remarkable similarities bu