A Companion to Renaissance Drama

In A Companion to Renaissance Drama Arthur F. Kinney, the distinguished Renaissance scholar and editor of English Literary Renaissance has gathered together contributions from 38 Renaissance scholars and critics. Notes on contributors and acknowledgements are followed by Kinney’s Introduction: “The Dramatic World of the Renaissance.” Here Kinney used the anonymous drama Arden of Faversham, “entered at the stationer’s register on April 3, 1592,” (p. 3) as his exemplum of Renaissance Drama. Most of the introductory discussion is devoted to this play. There is no explanation of the four‐part division of the rest of the Companion, or of the...