Acknowledgments Viii
A Note On The Texts Ix
Preface To The Third Edition X
Introduction 1
Brief Lives 13
Chronology 22
Maps 31
Anonymous 33
The Noble Triumphant Coronation Of Queen Anne, Wife Unto The Most Noble King Henry The VIIIRichard Mulcaster 43
The Queen's Majesty's PassageGeorge Gascoigne 61
The Princely Pleasures At The Court At KenilworthSir Philip Sidney 89
The Lady Of MayThomas Kyd 99
The Spanish TragedyJohn Lyly 149
GallatheaAnonymous 187
The Tragical History Of Thomas Of WoodstockChristopher Marlowe 243
The Tragical History Of D. FaustusAnonymous 277
Arden Of FavershamChristopher Marlowe 321
The Troublesome Reign And Lamentable Death Of Edward The SecondGeorge Peele 375
The Old Wives' TaleMary Sidney, Countess Of Pembroke 401
The Tragedy Of AntonyThomas Dekker 441
The Shoemakers' HolidayJohn Marston 485
The MalcontentAnthony Munday 543
The Triumphs Of Re-United BritanniaThomas Heywood 557
A Woman Killed With KindnessFrancis Beaumont 597
The Knight Of The Burning PestleBen Jonson 647
Volpone Or The FoxBen Jonson 717
The Masque Of QueensBen Jonson 735
Epiocene, Or The Silent WomanThomas Middleton 815
A Chaste Maid In CheapsideElizabeth Cary 863
The Tragedy Of MariamJohn Webster 905
The Duchess Of MalfiAnonymous 967
The BarriersWilliam Rowley, Thomas Deckker, And John Ford 977
The Witch Of EdmontonThomas Middleton And William Rowley 1033
The ChangelingJohn Ford 1081
'Tis Pity She's A WhoreMargaret Cavendish 1129
The Convent Of Pleasure: A ComedyIndex 1157
ARTHUR F. KINNEY is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History Emeritus in the University of Massachusetts and Founding Director of the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. He is the author and editor of a number of books and essays, including Renaissance Drama (editor, 2005), Shakespeare and Cognition (2006), Elizabethan and Jacobean England (2010), The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (editor, 2012), and Renaissance Reflections, Selected Essays 1976-2014 (2014). He is the only recipient of both the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America and the Jean Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sidney Society.DAVID A. KATZ is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. His articles have been published in The Shakespearean International Yearbook, English Literary Renaissance, Studies in Philology, Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, The Sidney Journal, and other periodicals.
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