Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.

Featuring essays by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical

This new edition of the Companion provides updated information about the principal theaters, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth