STUDY SHAK CONTEMP

Studying Shakespeare?s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featuring works of prestigious playwrights such as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton, Lars Engle describes the conditions under which Renaissance plays were commissioned, written, licensed, staged, and published. Plays are organized by theme and explored individually, creating a text that can be read as a complete overview of English Renaissance drama or used as an indexed reference resource.

“"Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries will show you that spending time with this material will be a rewarding opportunity to discover--or to rediscover--the wealth of enjoyment to be found in these plays." (Modern Philology 2016)”

"Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries will show you that spending time with this material will be a rewarding opportunity to discover-or to rediscover-the wealth of enjoyment to be found in these plays." (Modern Philology 2016)

Lars Engle is James G Watson Professor of English at TheUnviersity of Tulsa, USA, where he has won college and univeristyteaching awards. Educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Yale, heis the author of Shakespearan Pragmatism (1993) and numerousarticles on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. He is one ofthe editors of English Renaissance Drama: A NortonAnthology (2002), and a former Trustee of the ShakespeareAssociation of America. Eric Rasmussen is Foundation Professor of English at theUniversity of Nevada. He is co-editor of a variety of publications,including the English Renaissance Drama: A NortonAnthology (2002), the Royal Shakespeare Company sComplete Works of William Shakespeare (2007), and TheShakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue (2011).He isalso the General Textual Editor of the Internet ShakespeareEditions project.

Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featuring works of prestigious playwrights such as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton, Lars Engle describes the conditions under which Renaissance plays were commissioned, written, licensed, staged, and published. Plays are organized by theme and explored individually, creating a text that can be read as a complete overview of English Renaissance drama or used as an indexed reference resource.

Studying Shakespeare s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featuring works of prestigious playwrights such as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton, Lars Engle describes the conditions under which Renaissance plays were commissioned, written, licensed, staged, and published. Plays are organized by theme and explored individually, creating a text that can be read as a complete overview of English Renaissance drama or used as an indexed reference resource.

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