Drama of the English Republic is the first modern collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when England was nominall

Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries,

The first book-length study of the contributions that women writers made to the social, cultural and philosophical milieux of seventeenth-century English republ

Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678-82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare's authorial afterlife.

Contains forty original essays.