The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them.This book addresses Jonson’s dealings with the actors as well as the printers of his plays and supplements the discussion of different types of parts with a colourful range of case studies.

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon, but also the Bard’s contemporaries, the originality of this volume is highlighted in both its methodology and structure.

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s.
Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England.
The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre,...

By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage this book will enhance understanding about how and why women spoke, remained silent, or acted as they did in relation to their intimate partners in Early Modern and contemporary private and public situations in and around the Mediterranean.