A debate about the relationship between playgoing and the cultural life of Shakespeare's England.

Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional or cultural

Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a new approach to evaluating the psychological 'loss' of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation Eng

Contains forty original essays.

This book sheds new light on the dramatic devices Shakespeare developed for turning history into theatre in his history plays.