This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed dra

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries and interprets features of page display (

Approaching from bibliographical, literary, cultural, and intercultural perspectives, this book establishes the importance of Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden

This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and plac

This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives o