This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recognition and tr

What does it mean for early modern theatre to be 'live'? How have audiences over time experienced a sense of 'liveness'? This collection extends discussions of

As well as 'play-makers' and 'poets', playwrights of the early modern period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made from separate documents

Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as Shakespeare’s frequently performed play has r

Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.