Women on the Early Modern Stage : A Woman Killed with Kindness, the Tamer Tamed, the Duchess of Malfi, the Witch of Edmonton 9781408182338, 9781408182314

The Duchess of Malfi: A Critical Guide 9781623560225, 9780826443274, 9780826441249

This is a comprehensive introduction to "The Duchess of Malfi" that introduces its critical and performance hi

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Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage 9789048544226

In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as th

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The Youth of Early Modern Women 9789048534982

Through fifteen essays that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early mo

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Practicing the City: Early Modern London on Stage 9780823267897

Explores the theater’s unprecedented focus on the contemporary city in early modern London. Examines plays by Shakespear

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Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage 9781847792891

Examines the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth and James, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and the

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Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage 9781501513893, 9781501520204

The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows

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Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage 9780823284283

Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicizati

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The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage 9781501514159, 9781501520334

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This

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Witch on the Run

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The Duchess of Malfi: Sources, Themes, Characters [Reprint 2013 ed.] 9780674733282, 9780674733275

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