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