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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Discover so much in issue 28.1! 🎭
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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Pavel Drábek celebrates Domenico Lovascio’s continued contributions to Fletcher scholarship by reviewing his edition of Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One for the Revel Plays series. Read the review to find out more about this too often neglected play.

Promotional graphic for a book review in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “The False One by John Fletcher and Philip Messinger. Edited by Domenico Lovascio.” Reviewed by Pavel Drabek. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Mathew R. Martin offers scholars and educators a new critical edition of Robert Greene’s Selimus with @broadviewpress.bsky.social. Edward Gieskes reviews Martin’s edition of the play and celebrates its focus on Greene’s unique contributions to early theatre.
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Promotional graphic for a book review in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “Selimus by Robert Greene. Edited by Mathew R. Martin.” Reviewed by Edward Gieskes. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Finally, a standalone critical edition of Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage! Mathew R. Martin reviews Ruth Lunney’s Revels edition of this children’s company play @manchesterup.bsky.social.
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Promotional graphic for a book review in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe. Edited by Ruth Lunney.” Reviewed by Mathew R. Martin. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Jeremy Lopez reviews Edward Gieskes’s contribution to genre studies, Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, @edinburghup.bsky.social. Read more about this book's challenge to widely held assumptions about “the history play,” “revenge tragedy,” "romance," and more!
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Promotional graphic for a book review in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. By Edward Gieskes.” Reviewed by Jeremy Lopez. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Laurie Johnson provides a much needed overview of Leicester’s Men and their important early contribution to early modern theatre. @[email protected] reviews Leicester’s Men and Their Plays: An Early Elizabethan Playing Company and Its Legacy @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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Promotional graphic for a book review in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “Leicester's Men and Their Plays: An Early Elizabethan Playing Company and Its Legacy. By Laurie Johnson.” Reviewed by Domenico Lovascio. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

The ascension of the printed playbook! Jonathan P. Lamb reviews Heidi Craig’s Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Drama in the Civil Wars -- learn more about Craig's important contribution to theatre history. @cambridgeup.bsky.social.
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Promotional graphic for a book review in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “Theatre Closures and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars. By Heidi Craig.” Reviewed by Jonathan P. Lamb. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our newest edition is out now! ✏️ (4/4)

Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

keep an eye out for more in the upcoming posts! 😀🎭
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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

No libellous words here! Stephen Wittek reviews Joseph Mansky’s Libels and Theater in Shakespeare’s England: Publics, Politics, Performance @cambridgeup.bsky.social. Read more about the latest research on Shakespeare’s publics.
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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

How did early modern people learn about sex? Joseph Gamble provides some answers in Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity. Read Mario DiGangi’s review of Gamble’s book to learn more about its contributions to scholarship on affect, race, and sexuality studies.
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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ari Friedlander historicizes the rogue as a sexual identity in early modern society. Read Gillian Knoll’s review of Friedlander’s rogue Sexuality in early modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics to learn more about how anyone could go rogue.
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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

In ET’s June 2025 issue, Lauren Coker reviews Kaye McLelland’s Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture: Inhabiting Contested Thresholds (Routledge). Discover early modern depictions of non-binary identities through queer and bi theory, alongside disability studies!
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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Let’s hear it for the girl! Camila Reyes celebrates Deanne Williams’s critcal study of the girl actor in a review of Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.
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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our latest edition has been released! 📖 🤓 (3/4)
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Following up on the previous discussion, here's what else awaits you in our newest issue (28.1)! #StayAlert #ThrillingUpdates

Project MUSE - Early Theatre: A Journal associated with the Records of Early English Drama-Volume 28, Number 1, 2025

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Stay tuned for more in the upcoming post! 😀🎭
#StayTuned #ExcitingNews

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

A landmark study of dance in medieval and early modern England, Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England, 1300–1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith, @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social, by Lynneth Miller Renberg receives its proper due in a review by @winerock.bsky.social.

Promotional graphic for an a book review in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith. By Lynnette Miller Renberg.” Reviewed by Emily Winerock. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Jody Enders’s translation of the farces of medieval France makes these plays both accessible and teachable for a contemporary audience. Read @marcul.bsky.social's review of Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage @uofmpress.bsky.social!
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Promotional graphic for an a book review in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies. Edited by Jody Enders” Reviewed by Andrea Marculescu. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Daisy Black and Katharine Goodland's edited collection, Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama, @manchesterup.bsky.social, explores the medieval influence on early modern drama. For a detailed overview, read Jacob Ridley's review!
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Promotional graphic for an a book review in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama. Edited by Daisy Black and Katharine Goodland.” Reviewed by Jacob Ridley. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

What was it like for a middle-class English woman to see a play in the early modern period? In his essay “In Great Haste to See a Play,” Matteo Pangallo explores a letter written by Mary Ingram of Worchester written between 1607 and 1614 that describes her surprising experience.
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Promotional graphic for an article in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “In Great Haste to See a Play: A Woman Playgoer in Jacobean Worcester” by Matteo Pangallo. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Philip Goldfarb Styrt questions received wisdom about Milton's Comus, testing the implications of the language of movement and paralysis. Just published -- Early Theatre 28.1.
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Promotional graphic for an article in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “Sufficient To Have Stood: The Lady Unparalyzed in Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle” by Philip Goldfarb Styrt. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our newest issue is out!!! 🎙️ (2/4)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55088
Following the last thread, here's what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)!
#StayTuned #ExcitingNews

Project MUSE - Early Theatre: A Journal associated with the Records of Early English Drama-Volume 28, Number 1, 2025

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.

muse.jhu.edu

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Discover more in the next thread! 😀🎭
#StayTuned #ExcitingNews

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

James Cobbes's manuscript play Alopicos: amateur law-school drama or aspirational entry to the commercial theatre? Michael Lind Menna's recent ET article elucidates this debate and suggests possible answers.

Promotional graphic for an article in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “The Esquire and the Pettifogger: Reintroducing James Cobbe and Rethinking his Alopichos” by Michael Lind Menna. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · Aug 28

In “Pursued by a Bear,” Mary Villeponteaux asks us to re-consider Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale as an adaptation of Book 6 of Spenser’s The Winter’s Tale. Shakespeare, she argues, takes Spenserian themes about identity, nobility, and art and works them to comic conclusions.
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Promotional graphic for an article in Early Theatre Volume 28.1 (2025). Title reads: “Pursued by a Bear: The Art of Identity in Shakespeare and Spenser” by Mary Villeponteaux. Set against a burgundy background with early modern costume illustrations and a decorative theatrical header featuring classical faces.

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