The fifth volume of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. The years covered in this volume saw the consolidation of the Burbage and Shakespeare company as the King's Men, and the emergence of the Jacobean court masque.

• Abbreviations


• List of Entries


• British Drama, 1603-8


• Index of Persons


• Index of Places


• Index of Plays

Martin Wiggins is Senior Scholar of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. Educated at Oxford, he won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize in 1984 and was Junior Research Fellow at Keble College, Oxford from 1987-90. He has been Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute since 1990. Has served as Associate General Editor of Oxford English Drama (1992-2008), and of The Philological Museum (2004 to date).
Catherine Richardson is Reader in Renaissance Studies at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on the relationship between texts and the material experience of daily life in early modern England, on- and offstage. Previous publications include Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy (Manchester University Press, 2006) and Shakespeare and Material Culture (OUP, 2011). She is editor of Clothing Culture 1350-1650 (Ashgate, 2004) and, with Tara Hamling, Everyday Objects: medieval and early modern material culture and its meanings (Ashgate, 2010).