From Script to Stage in Early Modern England

Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theater in the University of Notre Dame, USA. Among his books are The Ornament of Action (1979) and English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s (1997). He is the editor of Shakespeare Survey and General Editor (with Stanley Wells) of Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. His most recent books are Imagining Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), The Authentic Shakespeare (2002) and Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England (1996). His many editions include The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in The Oxford Shakespeare, and Macbeth, King Lear, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew and The Sonnets in the New Pelican Shakespeare, of which he and A.R. Braunmuller are General Editors.

• List of Illustrations Series Introduction: Redefining British Theatre History Notes on Contributors Introduction: A View from the Stage; S.Orgel PART I: QUESTIONS OF EVIDENCE Henslowe's Rose/Shakespeare's Globe; R.A.Foakes Masks, Mimes and Miracles: Medieval English Theatricality and its Illusions; R.Beadle Theatre without Drama: Reading REED ; P.Holland PART II: INTERROGATING DATA A New Theater Historicism; A.Gurr Staging Evidence; A.B.Dawson PART III: WHAT IS A PLAY? Drama in the Archives: Recognizing Medieval Plays; C.Sponsler E/loco/com/motion; B.R.Smith Re-patching the Play; T.Stern PART IV: WOMEN'S WORK Slanderous Aesthetics and the Woman Writer: The Case of Hole v. White; C.Sale Labors Lost: Women's Work and Early Modern Theatrical Commerce; N.Korda The Sharer and His Boy: Rehearsing Shakespeare's Women; S.McMillin Index

'Compellingly readable essays.' - Laurie Maguire, Times Higher Education Supplement '...the-after history of early modern England is a field rich with possibilities, and From Script to Stage is a valuable and provocative invitiation to continue and reshape the discipline.' - Sixteenth Century Journal