Thomas Rist is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. His publications include Shakespeare's Romances and the Politics of Counter-Reformation, Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England and, co-edited with Andrew Gordon, The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures of the Post-Reformation.

• Series Introduction Notes on Contributors Introduction (Thomas Rist)1 The Critical Backstory (Edel Semple) 2 ‘Look on This Spectacle’: The Spanish Tragedy in Performance (Peter Malin) 3 The Spanish Tragedy: State of the Art (Stevie Simkin)4 New Directions: Seneca and The Spanish Tragedy (Gordon Braden)5 New Directions: Geopolitics and The Spanish Tragedy (Eric Griffin) 6 New Directions: The Spanish Tragedy and Virgil (Tom Rutter) 7 New Directions: Female Mourning, Revenge and Hieronimo’s Doomsday Play(Katharine Goodland) 8 The Spanish Tragedy: Resources for Teaching (Leslie Drury)NotesSelect BibliographyIndex

I’m very impressed by this series. I think its success lies in part in the general editors’ wise selection of volume editors who are both intellectually open-minded and capable of assembling strong, diverse teams of contributors.