Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.

This new edition of the Companion provides updated information about the principal theaters, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama

This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Pr

This book offers students factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama,

This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth