<p><b>This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age.</b></p> <ul> <li>Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to.</li> <li>Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period.</li> <li>Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays.</li> <li>Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.</li> </ul>