A Companion to Renaissance Drama [Hardcover]

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• Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to.
  
• Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period.
  
• Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays.
  
• Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.

List of Illustrations xi

Notes on Contributors xii

Acknowledgments xviii

Introduction: The Dramatic World of the Renaissance 1
Arthur F. Kinney

PART ONE The Drama’s World 11

1 The Politics of Renaissance England 13
Norman Jones

2 Political Thought and the Theater, 1580–1630 25
Annabel Patterson

3 Religious Persuasions, c.1580–c.1620 40
Lori Anne Ferrell

4 Social Discourse and the Changing Economy 50
Lee Beier

5 London and Westminster 68
Ian W. Archer

6 Vagrancy 83
William C. Carroll

7 Family and Household 93
Martin Ingram

8 Travel and Trade 109
William H. Sherman

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