David Scott Kastan

A new history of early English drama

Introduction: Demanding HistoryWorld Pictures, Modern Periods, and the Early Stage, by Margreta de GraziaThe English Church as Theatrical Space, by John M. Wasson,A Commonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling trick: Household Theater, by Suzanne WestfallThe Universities: Early Staging in Cambridge, by Alan H. NelsonEarly Staging in Oxford, by John R. Elliott, Jr.Streets and Markets, by Anne HigginsThe Theaters, by John OrrellRowme of its Own: Printed Drama in Early Libraries, by Heidi Brayman HackelTheater and Religious Culture, by Paul Whitfield WhiteWonderful Spectacles: Theater and Civic Culture, by Gordon Kipling,The Theater and Domestic Culture, by Diana E. HendersonEntertainments at Court, by Graham ParryThe Theater and Literary Culture, by Barbara A. MowatTheater and Popular Culture, by Michael D. BristolTouring, by Peter H. GreenfieldCloathes worth all the rest: Costumes and Properties, by Jean MacIntyre and Garret P.J. EppCensorship, by Richard DuttonAudiences: Investigation, Interpretation, Invention, by Ann Jennalie CookRogues and Rhetoricians: Acting Styles in Early English Drama, by Peter ThomsonPersonnel and Professionalization, by W.R. StreitbergerPlaywriting: Authorship and Collaboration, by Jeffrey MastenThe Publication of Playbooks, by Peter W. M. BlaneyPatronage and the Economics of Theater, by Kathleen E. McLuskie and Felicity DunsworthThe Revision of Scripts, by Eric RasmussenThe Repertory, by Roslyn L. KnutsonPlays in Manuscript, by Paul Werstine

Shakespeare after Theory

The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us.

The Shapes of Time

In Ben Jonson’s play, The Devil is an Ass, squire Fitzdottrell proclaims: Thomas of Woodstocke I’m sure was Duke, and he was made away, At Calice; as Duke Humphrey was at Bury: And Richard the third, you know what end he came to.