Author: Professor Douglas Bruster

Staging Britain”s Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain”s pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent …

Staging Britain”s Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain”s pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent …

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that …

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that …

Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without …

Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without …

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes. Materializi …

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes. Materializi …

Everyman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the individual. Everyman follows a man’s journey towards death and his effo …

Hamlet”s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare.  It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world – though few of us can remember m …

Hamlet”s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare.  It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world – though few of us can remember m …