Overview

Volume 38 of a continuing academic journal dedicated to research in the field of early drama and theatrical studies. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theater history to 1642. An internationally recognized board of scholars oversees the publication of MaRDiE. Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of early drama will find that the journal publishes wide-ranging discussions not only of plays and early performance history, but of topics pertaining to cultural history, as well as manuscript studies and the history of printing.

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Author:   S. P. Cerasano
Publisher:   Associated University Presses
Imprint:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN:  

9781683939863

ISBN 10:   1683939867
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 January 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

Foreword SHAKESPEARE AND MEMENTO MORI: ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES Remember (Me) Sarah R.A. Waters, Sterling College, US Macbeth, Herod, and the Ars Moriendi Grace Tiffany, Western Michigan University, US “Now Die, Die, Die, Die, Die!” Dicing as Memento Mori in Shakespeare’s Early Comedies Nora L. Corrigan, Mississippi University for Women, US Dig This: Hamlet and the Gravedigger Joe Ricke, Taylor University, US Shakespearean Meditations on Death, Beauty, and Art: “a sea change / Into something rich and strange” Tiffany Schubert, Wyoming Catholic College, US The Female Body as Memento Mori in King Lear Susan Dunn-Hensley, Wheaton College, US ARTICLES “The boone Delphic god / Drinks sack”: Ben Jonson and the Canary Quarrels Victoria M. Muñoz, Adelphi University, US The Well-Traveled Translator-Knight Who Wrote the Ur-Hamlet June Schlueter (Lafayette College, US) and Dennis McCarthy (independent scholar) Silence in Shakespeare’s Richard II David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas, US Intercessor or Nag? Reimagining the Female Saint of Medieval Drama in Shakespeare’s Problem Plays Hannah Elizabeth Bowling, Lincoln University of Missouri, US Women with Weapons on the Early Modern Stage Leslie Thomson, University of Toronto, Canada REVIEWS Bradley J. Irish, Disgust in Shakespeare: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion, London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Paul Budra, Simon Fraser University, Canada Katherine Schapp Williams, Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theatre, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. Katey Roden, Gonzaga University, US Roberta Kwan, Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self, Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. Jay Zysk, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US Index About the Editors and Contributors

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S. P. Cerasano is the Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University. Heather Anne Hirschfeld is distinguished professor of the humanities in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee. Edward Gieskes is professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

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