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Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Sa...l. 1. ACMRS Press. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
This review considers The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera edited by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos.
Simon Smith and Emma Whipday, eds. Playing and Playgoing in... and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
This review considers Simon Smith and Emma Whipday's Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance.
Sophie Tomlinson, ed. The Family of Love by Lording Barry. Manchester: Manchester University Press, The Revels Plays, 2022.
This review considers Sophie Tolimlinson's edition of The Family of Love by Lording Barry.
Callan Davies. What Is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023.
This review considers Callan Davies's What Is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620.
Harry R. McCarthy. Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Sha... Edward’s Boys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
This review considers Harry R. McCarthy's Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare: Edward’s Boys.
Chris Laoutaris. Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio. London: William Collins, 2023.
This review considers Chris Laoutaris's Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio.
Hannah August. Playbooks and Their Readers in Early Modern England. New York and London: Routledge, 2022.
This review considers Hannah August's Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England.
Vanessa I. Corredera. Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello i...t-Racial America. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
This review considers Vanessa I Corredera's Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America.
Cristina Paravano. Massinger’s Italy: Re-Imagining Italia...e in the Plays of Philip Massinger. New York: Routledge, 2023.
This review considers Cristina Paravano's Massinger’s Italy: Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger.
Editorial
This editorial for issue 27.1 (June 2024) of Early Theatre offers news and information to readers.
Noémie Ndiaye. Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performa...d Spain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
This review considers Noémie Ndiaye, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race, and Emily Weissbourd, Bad Blood: Staging Race Between Early Modern England and...
The Elder Brother, Virgil’s De apibus, and the Chronology...in the Canon of John Fletcher and His Collaborators, 1617–20
This article argues that John Brinsley's 1620 translation of Virgil's Georgics, Book IV, is a source for John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's The Elder Brother. This contention results in dating ...
Chaste, Fair, and Bountiful: Marston, Fletcher, and the Countess of Huntingdon’s Patronage
This essay uncovers the influences of Elizabeth Stanley Hastings, countess of Huntingdon (1588-1633), on household and commercial drama. John Marston’s Ashby entertainment (1607) and John Fletc...
The Politics of Sport: John Day's The Isle of Gulls
This article explores three scenes in John Day’s understudied satiric drama The Isle of Gulls, reading the royal hunt, game of bowls, and double jest as examples of a cultural phenomenon that d...
The Queen in Shakespeare’s Q1 Hamlet
Although long maligned, the 1603 first quarto of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Q1) portrays a strong queen and mother figure in Gertred, specifically in a scene that is unique to this version of the pl...
Bringing ‘Such Matters Upon the Stage’: Women Exemplars...or Fair Women (1599) and Golding’s A Briefe Discourse (1573)
This essay argues that the unnamed playwright of the 1599 tragedy A Warning for Fair Women adapts Arthur Golding’s 1573 (rpt 1577) pamphlet to reshape the heroine from a negative example of adu...