Apes and Monkeys on the Early Modern Stage, 1603–1659

Teresa Grant is Director of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and Associate Professor in Renaissance Theatre in the department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. With primary research interests in early modern theatre, she also publishes more widely on Renaissance culture and on the history of the book. She is a general editor of The Complete Works of James Shirley (2022-).

• 1. The Renaissance Animal: Critics and Contexts.- 2. The Renaissance Monkey.- 3. ‘Somewhat Like A Man’: Apes, Boy Players, Women.- 4. Vir-tue: Being a Man.- 5. Bacon’s Antimasquing Baboons.- 6. The Memorable Masque, 1613.- 7. Beaumont and Fletcher (with Shakespeare).- 8. Apes, Indigeneity and the Early Modern Travel Narrative.- 9. A Brace of Court Apes: James Shirley’s Masques.- 10. “Sir William and His Apes”: Davenant, monkeys and the staging of disorder.- 11. The End of the Antique Measures.