HE following pages embrace nearly all the Documents and Treatifes directly illuftrating the
early hiſtory of English Dramatic Poetry and of the Engliſh Stage, which have not hitherto been …

… us to extend the canon of Tudor and Stuart plays we value, and the New Swan theater in
Stratford has provided an excellent place to stage such plays, these and other series have died …

… of the Drama--I begin with the afterlife rather than preconditions for drama because that topic
… For years the encounter with Asia has produced lasting inspiration for theater people, from …

… rather than a specialized study of the early modem drama. However, close to half this volume
is taken up with discussions of Tudor and Stuart theater practice, including essays on the …

Only at this point do I fully understand why SEL asks a different scholar each year to summarize
the publications in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. Further, my admiration for …

… In Colonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama, a study that locates the gender and
racial politics of Restoration drama-- revisions of The Tempest, John Dryden's Indian Queen …

… , perhaps reflected in plays of John Ford and James Shirley. Her examples range from
Gorboduc to the succession crisis in Robin Hood plays to the plays where stewards might also be …

In reading and writing about the books below, I have tried to be receptive and relatively
humble, or at least to keep my own considerable rivalrous tendencies in check, in order to give …

… plays" (p. 293). For English speakers the archaic patina of Shakespeare's language may
conceal the relevance of the plays … to the implicit politics of the plays. Finally, the verbal …

… plays-Doctor Faustus and A Game at Chess-by playwrights other than Shakespeare and nine
of Shakespeare's plays… vision of Tudor and Stuart drama by giving Shakespeare's plays a …