A companion to Renaissance drama

Pt. 1. The drama's world: The politics of Renaissance England / Norman Jones

Political thought and theatre, 1580-1630 / Annabel Patterson

Religious persuasions, c.1580-c.1620 / Lori Anne Ferrell

Social discourse and the changing economy / Lee Beier

London and Westminster / Ian W. Archer

Vagrancy / William C. Carroll

Family and household / Martin Ingram

Travel and trade / William H. Sherman

Everyday custom and popular culture / Michael Bristol

Magic and witchcraft / Deborah Willis.

Pt. 2. The world of drama: Playhouses / Herbert Berry

The transmission of an English Renaissance play-text / Grace Ioppolo

Playing companies and repertory / Roslyn L. Knutson

Must the devil appear? : audiences, actors, stage business / C. P. Cerasano

"The actors are come hither" : traveling companies / Peter H. Greenfield

Jurisdiction of theatre and censorship / Richard Dutton.

Pt. 3. Kinds of drama: Medieval and Reformation roots / Raphael Falco

The academic drama / Robert S. Knapp

"What revels are in hand?" : performances in the great households / Suzanne Westfall

Progresses and court entertainments / R. Malcolm Smits

Civic drama / Laurence Manley

Boy companies and private theatres / Michael Shapiro

Revenge tragedy / Eugene D. Hill

Staging the malcontent in Early Modern England / Mark Thornton Burnett

City comedy

John A. Twyning

Domestic tragedy : private life on the public stage / Lena Cowen Orlin

Romance and tragicomedy / Maurice Hunt

Gendering the stage / Alison Findlay

Closet drama / Marta Straznicky.

Pt. 4. Dramatists: Continental influences / Lawrence F. Rhu

Christopher Marlowe / Emily C. Bartels

Ben Jonson / W. David Kay

Sidney, Cary, Wroth / Margaret Ferguson

Thomas Middleton / John Jowett

Beaumont and Fletcher / Lee Bliss

Collaboration / Philip C. McGuire

John Webster / Elli Abraham Shellist

John Ford / Maria DiGangi.