Critical essays discuss the works of the major dramatists of the Elizabethan age in this comprehensive volume.

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Theatres and Companies -- New Tragedies for Old -- Marlowe and the Jades of Asia -- Doctor Faustus -- 'Italian masques by night': Machiavellian Policy and Ovidian Play in Edward II -- Artificial Comedy and Popular Comedy -- Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Fictive Navarre -- Shakespeare's and Jonson's View of Public Theatre Audiences -- Licensed Fools: the 1598 Watershed -- The Elizabethan Dramatists as Literary Critics -- Jonson on Shakespeare -- The Other Side of the War: Marston and Dekker -- The Revenger's Tragedy (c. 1606) -- Bussy D'Ambois (c. 1604) -- Parasites and Sub-parasites -- Pastimes and the Purging of Theater -- The Royal Spectacle -- Tragicomedy -- Giving the Finger: Puns and Transgression in The Changeling -- Chronology.