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.
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.
Articles Thierry and Theodoret: Censorship, Allegory and Plausible Deniability Richard Dutton "In rugged verse vile matters to contain": The Devil's Charter as Antipasquinade James Mardock The Origins of Repertory in English Drama, or, How to Find Needles in Haystacks Laurie Johnson Not like the Others: The Three Lords and Ladies of London and the Queen's Men Repertory Erin Kelly Was Christopher Marlowe a Capitalist?: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament, The Jew of Malta, and Stories of Economic Change Bradley Ryner The Wars of Cyrus: Date and Authorship, and Why They Matter Michael J. Hirrel "Gone and Loste": Tracing Philip Henslowe's 1598 Theatrical Inventories Anouska Lester Q1 Hamlet and its Compilers Brian Vickers Authorship Attributions in the Fletcher Canon Darren Freebury-Jones Reviews Harry R. McCarthy, Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Valerie Billing Noemie Ndiaye, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race, RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Dennis Britton Darren Freebury-Jones, Shakespeare's Tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. Christopher Crosbie Mark Kaethler, Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. David Nicol Caroline Bicks, Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World: Rethinking Female Adolescence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Bethany Packard Urvashi Chakravarty, Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Elizabeth Rivlin Emma Lipton, Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Jeffrey G. Stoyanoff
