Early Theatre

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Efficient, Personalized, Professional Service: It is our policy to report expeditiously to authors on their submissions – generally within 4 months. We use a standardized, independent, double-anonymous peer-review process.

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Early Theatre

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Editorial

Editorial

Articles

“Read it for restoratives”: Pericles and the Romance of Whiteness

The Erotics of Salvage

‘My maine hope is, to begin the sport at Millaine’: Italy in Philip Massinger’s The Duke of Milan

Fear and Trembling: Performing the Protestant Conscience in Thomas Middleton’s The Lady’s Tragedy

Amateur Theatre at the Early Modern Inns of Court? The Implications of a Performance Copy of Jonson’s 1640 Folio

Book Reviews

José A. Pérez Díez, ed. Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.

Jeremy Lopez, ed. The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.

Shelby Richardson, ed. The Witch of Edmonton by Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2021.

Carol Mejia LaPerle, ed. Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, 2022.

Tom Bishop, Gina Bloom, and Erika T. Lin, eds. Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Eleanor Rycroft. Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity. London and New York: Routledge, 2019.

Domenico Lovascio. John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the Classics. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.

W.B. Worthen. Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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