Early Theatre

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Early Theatre publishes original, peer-reviewed research on medieval and early modern drama and theatre history. Please click the About tab, above, to find out more about our focus and scope, editorial team, support for authors, copyright and green open access policies, and more.

Readers wishing to access our most recent issues in both PDF and html formats can find these, via open access, on Project Muse.

Current Issue

Vol. 28 No. 1 (2025)

Published: 2025-06-13

Editorial

Editorial

Melinda J. Gough; Erin E. Kelly
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Articles

'Princely Performed to the Honor of Our Nation' Leicester’s Men in the Netherlands as Agents of English Soft Power

A 'Ludicrous and Inappropriate' Dinner Guest: The Character of the Titus Andronicus Fly

Pursued by a Bear The Art of Identity in Shakespeare and Spenser

The Esquire and the Pettifogger Reintroducing James Cobbe and Rethinking his Alopichos

Sufficient To Have Stood The Lady Unparalyzed in Milton’s A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle

Notes

In Great Haste to See a Play A Woman Playgoer in Jacobean Worcester

Book Reviews

Daisy Black and Katharine Goodland, eds. Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024.

Jody Enders, ed. and trans. Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Lynneth Miller Renberg. Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2022.

Deanne Williams. Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.

Kaye McLelland. Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture: Inhabiting Contested Thresholds. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Ari Friedlander. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Joseph Gamble. Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.

Joseph Mansky. Libels and Theater in Shakespeare’s England: Publics, Politics, Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Heidi Craig. Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Laurie Johnson. Leicester’s Men and Their Plays: An Early Elizabethan Playing Company and Its Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Edward Gieskes. Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Ruth Lumney, ed. Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, The Revels Plays, 2023.

Mathew R. Martin, ed. Selimus by Robert Greene. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2022.

Domenico Lovascio, ed. The False One by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. Manchester: Manchester University Press, The Revels Plays, 2022.

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