The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare and contemporary dramatists

Abstract

1. John Lyly and the university wits: George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge and Thomas Nashe Arthur F. Kinney 2. Thomas Kyd and the Elizabethan blockbuster: The Spanish Tragedy Clara Calvo 3. 'The words of mercury': Shakespeare and Marlowe Richard Wilson 4. The dyer's hand: Shakespeare and Jonson Warren Chernaik 5. Urbane John Marston: obscenity, playfulness, co-operation Matthew Steggle 6. Thomas Dekker and the emergence of city comedy Darryll Grantley 7. Shakespeare: colleagues, collaborators, co-authors Ton Hoenselaars 8. Thomas Heywood: dramatist of London and playwright of the passions Jean E. Howard 9. George Chapman's learned drama Paul Franssen 10. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's tragicomedy as musical melodrama Catherine Henze 11. Thomas Middleton and the early modern theatre Michelle O'Callaghan 12. John Webster: collaboration and solitude Robert Henke 13. John Ford: suffering and silence in Perkin Warbeck and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Lisa Hopkins 14. Philip Massinger: drama, reputation, and the dynamics of social history Rui Carvalho Homem 15. Richard Brome and the idea of a Caroline theatre Heather Hirschfeld 16. Troublesome histories: performance and early modern drama Elizabeth Schafer.