Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama

Iman Sheeha is a senior lecturer in Shakespeare and early modern literature at Brunel University of London. She has authored Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy (Routledge, 2020) and co-edited a special issue on liminal domestic spaces for Early Modern Literary Studies (2020). Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare, Early Theatre, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Early Modern Literary Studies, and American Notes and Queries. She contributed a chapter to People and Piety: Devotional Writing in Print and Manuscript in Early Modern England (2019) and wrote the Introduction to the forthcoming Oxford World Classics The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham (2025).

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Neighbouring in Early Modern EnglandChapter 1: ‘[A] neighbour of yours […] up she took a needle or a pin’: Neighbourly Tensions in Gammer Gurton’s NeedleChapter 2: ‘I say shees my deadly enemie’: Female Neighbourly Quarrels and Male Alliances in The Two Angry Women of AbingtonChapter 3: Alliances and Divisions: Female Neighbourly Networks in The Merry Wives of WindsorChapter 4: ‘[S]o near a neighbour, and so unkind’: Home and Neighbourhood in Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware WomenConclusionBibliographyIndex