Renaissance Drama 27 - New Series XXVII 1996 Renaissance Dramatic Culture

Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance.

The essays in this volume, "Renaissance Dramatic Culture," explores a series of diverse issues, including the perils of cultural production, women and household labor in Marston's The Dutch Courtesan, Edward IV and the civic nation, women writers and Edward II, courtship and consumption in early modern Paris, and the English domestication of history.