This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to, gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. This work: provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to; offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period; gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays; and, looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.