No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with foreign languages and the phenomenon of translation, as English Renaissance drama. Originally published as a themed issue of English Text Construction 6:1 (2013), this carefully balanced collection of essays, now enhanced with a new Afterword, decisively demonstrates that Shakespeare and his colleagues were far more than just English authors and that their very Englishness can only be properly understood in a broader international and...