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Puritans, Politicians and Renaissance Theatre: Religious and Political Pressures Closed Entertainment Venues

By: Feature Writer Kathleen Airdrie

16th Century London Theatrical Venues: Stages for Touring Theatre Companies Developed at Inn Yards

By: Feature Writer Kathleen Airdrie

Blackfriars Theatre in Renaissance London: Innovation of Actors' Company During Shakespeare’s Time

By: Feature Writer Kathleen Airdrie

The Shakespeare Identity and Authorship Problem: Was Shakespeare "Shakespeare"?

By: Ellen Wilson

Texas Renaissance Festival is Live Theatre: Costumed Actors in Plantersville Provide Full Day of Entertainment

By: Christine Nyholm

North Carolina Renaissance Festival Huntersville: Ren Faire and Artisan Marketplace Fall 2008

By: Christine Nyholm

The Elizabethan Swan Theatre: Early Modern London's Largest Open-Air Shakespearean Theatre

By: Megan Nell

The Elizabethan "University Wits": Marlowe, Kyd, Green, Lyle: Important English Renaissance Playwrights

By: Ellen Wilson

Webster's Women: The Portrayal of Vittoria in Act 1 of the White Devil

By: Julia Dean

The Revenger's Tragedy Film: A Cyberpunk Version of a Seventeenth-Century Horror Play

By: Jem Bloomfield

Poison and Catholicism: Murder and Religion in Renaissance Revenge Drama

By: Jem Bloomfield

Jonson's Comedies: Cynical Urban Humour from a Shakespeare Contemporary

By: Jem Bloomfield

Ben Jonson's The Alchemist: Elizabethan Farce with a Sly Message

By: Jem Bloomfield

Revenge Tragedies: Gory Renaissance Horror Plays

By: Jem Bloomfield

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