Books in the Revels Plays Companion Library series

The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character -- .

A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity. -- .

Modern-spelling edition of the two works, allows the twenty-first century reader access to this culturally significant text. -- .

This volume brings together three late sixteenth-century popular stage romances of travel and conquest in the Muslim East. The plays are introduced, contextualised and edited for the first time in a modern-spelling edition. -- .

Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a 'pattern and precedent' for the golden generation of early modern playwrights. -- .

With reproduction of original title page: Pappe with an hatchet: alias, A figge for my god sonne, or, Cracke me this nut, or, A countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning / written by one that dares call a dog, a dog, and made to prevent Martins dog daies.

During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. -- .

Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response, as well as providing a new account of English drama in these important but largely neglected years. -- .

Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a 'pattern and precedent' for the golden generation of early modern playwrights. -- .

Thomas Kyd is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. In Lukas Erne's book, "The Spanish Tragedy" - the most popular of all plays on the English Renaissance stage - receives scholarly and critical treatment, including a full reception and modern stage history.

Focuses on the work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. This book includes Edwards' play, "Damon and Pythias", his poems, together with a number of original musical settings.

Binds cupid, metamorphoses, harmony, the body politic and an exploration of love, lust, chastity, food and anatomy.

This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey England's early 17th-century fascination with travel and exploration. The texts are modernized with extensive commentaries and an introduction setting them in historical and cultural context.

A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'. -- .

Now available in paperback, this edition constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over one hundred wills left by those who participate in the life of the theatre - from actors and dramatists to carpenters and costumiers. -- .

This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, and The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an extensive scholarly introduction to the attitudes toward money-lending in early modern England, and to the authors, texts and historical contexts of these dramas.The plays included in this edition also represent examples of 'city plays' and 'alien plays', thus making them widely relevant to scholars and teachers in many areas of early modern studies. They are also gaining new appreciation in their own right.As befits a volume in the RPCL series, the edition is academically advanced to cater for specialised scholars. However, the introduction, editing and annotation remain accessible for undergraduates and theatregoers.

Offers a groudbreaking and authoritative account of the life and works of Richard Brome, the leading comic playwright of 1630s London - reconstructs the chronology of his career from manservant to successful professional dramatist and beyond, and discusses all his comedies, including the two best-known plays, 'A Jovial Crew' and 'The Antipodes'. -- .