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'Participating Immortality': Memory and Performance in Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent
Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent and its multifaceted textual afterlives dramatize memorial processes greatly dependent on the participatory experience of the performed event. These processes hi...
An Edition of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse and a New Letter by Collier on Massinger in the Athenaeum (1857)
This article identifies two previously uncatalogued items that were published in the Athenaeum in November 1857, each of which is connected to the then-recent acquisition of the Conway Papers by ...
Early English Drama Records and Other Manuscripts from Coventry Destroyed Before and During the Second World War
When Coventry’s central library was destroyed in 1940, valuable early guild records were lost. No consensus has emerged regarding which records were lost during the war and which records had be...
Performative Print: A Printing Anomaly in The Coblers Prophesie
Signature F2r of The Coblers Prophesie (1594) by Robert Wilson brings the reader to an abrupt halt – it contains a page-stopping stage direction in gargantuan type. This article examines whethe...
Reconsidering The Battle of Hexham: A Lost Play by Barnabe Barnes?
This note draws on new evidence from nineteenth-century auction catalogues to reconsider the question of whether Barnabe Barnes was the author of a lost play titled The Battle of Hexham.
The York Vintners’ ‘The Marriage at Cana’ and the Puzzle of Pageants Withheld from the Register
Opening with the character of Architriclinus, the York Vintners’ pageant ‘The Marriage at Cana’ likely bolstered their claims over the right to search and sell sweet and other wines in conf...
‘Heaven guide him to thy husband’s cudgel’: Falstaff as Male Witch in The Merry Wives of Windsor
This essay argues that in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, when the merry wives dress Falstaff as the old woman of Brentford, they reveal his true character by visually associating him...
'Can you play that?': Moll's Urban Witchcraft in The Roaring Girl
This essay explores the migration of witchcraft language from the rural environs in which we typically find it to the urban space of London in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl. The play�...
The Devil at the Edge of this Book: Intertextual Ecologies of Early Modern Crime Narratives
This essay uses The Wonderfull Discouerie of Elizabeth Sawyer and The Witch of Edmonton to examine how the multiple, conflicting agendas and intertextual relationships of crime narratives in popu...
Witches In Space: Introduction
The introduction to this Issues in Review entitled ‘Witches in Space’ sets out the critical history that forms the background work on the literary geographies of early modern witchcraft. The ...
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An overview of news about Early Theatre, including announcements of new book review co-editors and two new assistant editors, as well as new initiatives for open access distribution.