Discusses the origins of English-speaking theater and includes facts about seven early Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare.

The most neglected of the English Renaissance playwrights are the major Carolines—Philip Massinger, John Ford, James Shirley, and Richard Brome. Writing in th

David Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of