Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The F

The paratexts in early modern English playbooks – the materials to be found primarily in their preliminary pages and end matter – provide a rich source of i

Dr Peter Orford and his editing team have collected articles from the next generation of Shakespeare scholars to offer a glimpse into the future of Renaissance

A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's Hamlet is considered by many to be the cornerstone of the English literary canon, a play that remains universally relevant. Yet it seems likely th