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Title: A New History of Early English Drama by John D. Cox, David Scott Kastan, Stephen J. Greenblatt ISBN: 0-231-10243-7 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: invaluable for any student of Shakespeare
Comment: This is the best companion to Renaissance Drama we have. It is nothing less than a revolutionary account of the conditions of writing, producing, and experiencing the plays of Shakespeare's age. The individual essays are clearly written, learned, often ground-breaking in their impact--but it is the totality of this book that is most impressive, allowing us to see the great achievement of the English Renaissance through the defining contexts of its production and performance. Wow!

Rating: 2
Summary: more "new" than "history"
Comment: This is an important volume, if for no other reason than that it will--for better or worse--undoubtedly become the standard history of early English drama. However, the volume's slavish devotion to postmodernist sensibilities underlie the majority of material and make for a few terribly skewed pieces. Did you know, for example, that early modern playwrights very seldom actually wrote their plays? This volume assures us that the plays instead usually emerged through the semi-mystical process of "collaboration" that has become a buzz-word for postmodernist critics. Most of those apparently thematically unified and rhetorically tight Renaissance plays were actually the result of various pens and voices chiming in with whatever they felt was appropriate. Terribly impressive.

If you are a student or devotee of early English drama, you need to have this book on your shelf if for no other reason than that you will be referred to its articles time and again in subsequent scholarship. You are almost obligated to read them. Fortunately, you are not obligated to be convinced by them.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Classic
Comment: Could be titled "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know." This is unquestionably the best book about Renaissance Drama ever put together: authoritative essays, brilliantly organized, in a book that changes the shape of the field--hopefully forever.

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