Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.

This new edition of the Companion provides updated information about the principal theaters, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth

This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course l