Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England Volumes 16-19Edited by John Pitcher and S. P. Cerasano
About the Editors:
John Pitcher is Vice President and an Official Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford.
S. P. Cerasano is the Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.
Volume 19 of Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England reflects a variety of scholarly interests. One essay—on the ownership of the Bell Savage Playhouse—showcases MaRDiE’s ongoing interest in early playhouses, while another—on Marston’s Entertainment at Ashby—addresses performance history. Two further essays discuss issues related to stage costuming. Issues of actual identity are raised in an essay concerning John Lyly’s biography, while two other authors probe the complex connections between drama and economics. William Rowley’s All’s Lost by Lust becomes the centerpiece for a reassessment of the rape tragedy. The collection opens with two essays—each exploring different aspects of John Webster and James Shirley—that further out understanding of attribution studies. ISBN 0-8386-4119-9
Volume 18 of Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England reflects a variety of scholarly interests. These are presented in essays addressing the conditions of theatrical ownership and dramatic competition to those exploring stage movement and theatrical space. Still another piece offers a new critical engagement with the Protestant context of George Peele’s Old Wives Tale. Two further articles, concentrating on medieval drama, probe issues relating to maternal mourning in the Corpus Christi plays and the mapping of the world in the Digby Mary Magdalen. The collection opens with a symposium of three papers—recently revised for this volume—that were originally presented in a session on Christopher Marlowe and theatrical performance that was aired at the Marlowe Society conference at Cambridge University in July 2003.
ISBN: 0-8386-4074-5
Volume 17 is specially commissioned to celebrate the scholarship and career of Leeds Barroll, the founding Editor of MaRDiE. Its contents mirror Barroll’s many contributions to the study of Shakespeare, the drama, and royal and aristocratic patronage in early modern England. The contributors to volume 17 wish to honor Barroll with what they have discovered in the archives (a black African in an English lawsuit, a school for girls in early modern Windsor, the provenance of the play, The Telltale) or found out about individual lives and circumstances (the little known William Appowell, Priest, as well as Henslowe, Daniel, and Lord Chancellor Egerton, together with King James’s tastes in tapestries). The special interest Barroll has had in Shakespeare is reflected in studies of King Lear, of its progenitor King Leir, of Desdemona’s courage, and of Shakespeare’s dealings with the Chamberlain’s Men in 1598. An account of the English history play at the end of the sixteenth century is complemented by a close examination of the Rose Rage productions of Shakespeare’s histories at the end of the twentieth century.
ISBN: 0-8386-4032-X
Volume 16 contains six archival studies, with new findings and conclusions about the place of drama in the provinces, the design of Swan Theatre, and the financing and presentation of an Elizabethan entertainment. Reviews in Volume 16 range widely: there are discussions of the printed book and drama in early modern England, the politics of carnival, race, and culture in Stuart drama, the playing companies, a new dictionary of stage directions, and an overview of the reign of Elizabeth I. As with the articles, the reviews seek to establish historical and theoretical contexts for individual plys and their authors, as well as for the institutions and discourses of the theater. An international board of leading scholars and cultural historians maintains the quality of each annual volume so Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England can be relied on as a useful guide and source for all students of the drama of this period--for directors, teachers, and actors as well as for specialists in college and university study.
ISBN 0-8386-4000-1
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