A comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century, combining a survey of existing work on the Cavendishes with new, wide-ranging research.

Lisa Hopkins ============ Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, of the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, and of Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama. Tom Rutter ========== Tom Rutter is lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield and co-editor of Shakespeare. Books include Shakespeare and the Admiral's Men (2017).