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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theatre history to 1642. An internationally recognized board of scholars oversees the publication of MaRDiE. Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of early drama will find that the journal publishes wide-ranging discussions not only of plays and early performance history, but of topics relating to cultural history, as well as manuscript studies and the history of printing.
List of contents
Foreword
S. P. Cerasano
Articles
"Stigma and Satire in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: Thersites's Deformity and Ajax's Monstrosity"
Jeffrey R. Wilson
"The Masque of Flowers (1614) and Letters
David M. Bergeron
"Self-Deception in Soliloquies in Shakespeare's Plays: An Empirical Investigation"
James Hirsh
"George North's Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland: A Courtier's Warning to the Queen"
June Schlueter
"History as Warning: Middleton, Massinger, and the Censors"
Warren Chernaik
"The Transgressive Will in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe and Elizabeth Cary"
Douglas Clark
"Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus and the Wisdom Tradition"
Eric Pudney
"Fulgens and Lucres and the Middle English Debate Tradition"
Noah Gene Peterson
"King Lear's Edgar and Early Modern Renderings of the Apostle Peter"
Derek Witten
"'Unkinged' King Richard's Sense of Self in Richard II"
Michael Menase
"'Epitaphs in Glitt'ring Golden Characters': Watery Empathy and The Purity of 'The Real' in Pericles, Prince of Tyre"
Jessica Tooker
"Post-Restoration Adaptations: Is Double FalsehoodCardenio? Versification Analysis"
Marina Tarlinskaja
About the author
Edited by S. P. Cerasano - Associate editor Edward Gieskes and Heather Anne Hirschfeld - Contributions by David M. Bergeron; S. P. Cerasano; Warren Chernaik; Douglas Clark; James Hirsh; Michael Menase; Noah Gene Peterson; Eric Pudney; June Schlueter; Mari
Summary
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theatre history to 1642, covering not only plays and early performance history, but of topics relating to cultural history, as well as manuscript studies and the history of printing.
