What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking his 'late plays' as the beginning and end of the

Subject Stages argues that the discourses and practices of marital legislation, litigation, and theatrics informed each other in early modern Spain in ways that

Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, the volume explores the ways in which early modern plays stage dram

This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern pro

Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans looks at the early modern theater through the lens of obscure and obscene puns--especially "queer" puns, those that carry homoer