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THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE STATE OF PLAY SERIES

General Editors: Lena Cowen Orlin and Ann Thompson

Macbeth: The State of Play, edited by Ann Thompson

Othello: The State of Play, edited by Lena Cowen Orlin

The Sonnets: The State of Play, edited by Hannah Crawforth, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and Clare Whitehead

Further titles in preparation

Titus Andronicus: The State of Play,
edited by Farah Karim-Cooper

The Arden Shakespeare

State of Play

Series Editors: Lena Cowen Orlin and Ann Thompson

This series represents a collaboration between Kings College London and Georgetown University. Kings is the home of the London Shakespeare Centre and Georgetown is the home of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA). Each volume in the series is an expedition to discover the state of play with respect to specific works by Shakespeare. Our method is to convene a seminar at the annual convention of the SAA and see what it is that preoccupies scholars now. SAA seminars are enrolled through an open registration process that brings together academics from all stages of their careers. Participants prepare short papers that are circulated in advance and then discussed when the seminar convenes on conference weekend. From the papers submitted, the seminar leader selects a group for inclusion in a collection that aims to include fresh work by emerging voices and established scholars both. The general editors are grateful for the further collaboration of Bloomsbury Publishing, and especially our commissioning editor Margaret Bartley.

Janet Clare is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Co-director of the Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Hull. She is the author of Art Made Tongue-Tied by Authority: Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Censorship (second edition, 1999), Drama of the English Republic, 16491660 (2002) and Revenge Tragedies of the Renaissance (2006). She has published many articles on Renaissance and early modern literature and drama and co-edited the Journal of Early Modern Studies 2, Shakespeare and Early Modern Popular Culture. Her most recent book is Shakespeares Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre (2014).

Katherine M. Graham is a Lecturer in English Literature (Theatre) at the University of Westminster, where she is also co-director of the Queer London Research Forum. She is co-editor of Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London (Bloomsbury, 2016), in which she has a chapter on queer temporalities, and is currently working on a monograph, Queer Revenge, which explores the link between queerness and vengeance in early modern drama. She also has forthcoming work on the strangeness of revenge and the revenger in The Revengers Tragedy and Beaumont and Fletchers The Maids Tragedy.

Katherine Gillen is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. She has published essays in several venues, including Studies in English Literature 15001900, Shakespeare Studies and Cahiers lisabthains. Her book Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity, and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeares Stage is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.

Heather Hirschfeld is Lindsay Young Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare (2014), Joint Enterprises: Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater (2004), and articles in such journals as Shakespeare Quarterly, ELH, RES and PMLA.

Erin E. Kelly is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). Her publications include essays and articles on a range of early modern plays, such as Nathaniel Woodess Conflict of Conscience, the anonymous Sir Thomas More and Elizabeth Carys Tragedy of Mariam. She is currently working on a monograph about representations of religious conversion in sixteenth-century drama and preparing a new edition of Shakespeares Taming of the Shrew for the Internet Shakespeare Editions and Broadview Press. Since 2011, she has served as an associate editor for the journal Early Theatre.

Karen Marsalek is Associate Professor of English at St. Olaf College, with a particular interest in the early modern afterlives of medieval theatrical practice. Her publications include articles on stagings of resurrections, Antichrist, and the divorce trial of Henry VIII. Her essay in this volume is part of a larger research project on remains and revenants in the Kings Mens repertory.

Ian McAdam is Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada). He is the author of The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe (1999) and Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama (2009). He is working on a project entitled Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Secular Christ.

Gretchen E. Minton is Professor of English at Montana State University. She has co-edited Timon of Athens (Arden, 2008), edited John Bales The Image of both Churches (2014) and Troilus and Cressida (2015), and is currently completing work on the Arden Early Modern Drama edition of The Revengers Tragedy. Her other publications, which focus on early modern drama, performance, and the English Reformation, have appeared in journals such as Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, Cahiers lisabthains, as well as in various essay collections. She is a frequent speaker at Shakespeare festivals and is the dramaturg for Montana Shakespeare in the Parks.

Lucy Munro is a Reader in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Kings College London. She is the author of Children of the Queens Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (2005) and Archaic Style in English Literature, 15901674 (2013), and the editor of Sharphams The Fleer, Shakespeare and Wilkinss Pericles, Bromes The Queen and Concubine and The Demoiselle, Fletchers The Tamer Tamed and Dekker, Ford and Rowleys The Witch of Edmonton. Her essays have appeared in Huntington Library Quarterly, Modern Philology and other journals and edited collections. She is currently writing a book about Shakespeare and the Kings Men.

Kevin A. Quarmby is Assistant Professor of English at The College of St Scholastica. Quarmby has published in journals including Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare and Shakespeare Bulletin. He is editing Henry VI, Part 1 for Internet Shakespeare Editions, and is Editor of the review journal Scene. His monograph, The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (2012), was shortlisted for the Globe Theatre Book Award in 2014. Other work includes essays in Women Making Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Macbeth: The State of Play (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Eric D. Vivier is Assistant Professor of English and Faculty Fellow of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University, where he teaches classes on British Literature, Shakespeare, and Great Books. He has published articles on satirical controversy in