Martin Wiggins is Senior Scholar of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. From 1987-90 he held a Junior Research Fellowship at Keble College, Oxford. He has also taught at the University of Reading, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London, and The Roehampton Institute. His previous books include Journeymen in Murder (OUP, 1991) and Shakespeare and the Drama of His Time (OUP, 2000). He is Associate General Editor of Oxford English Drama and of The Philological Museum, and has edited Edward II (New Mermaids, 1997), Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies (OUP, 1998), 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (New Mermaids, 2003), and A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays (OUP, 2008). In 2006, he won the Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for distinguished work on Christopher Marlowe.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), Shakespeare and Material Culture (Oxford University Press, 2011), and 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).

Another remarkable project... With its wide scope and meticulous attention to detail, it will be an essential reference work.

• Abbreviations ; List of Entries ; British Drama, 1590-7 ; Index of Persons ; Index of Places ; Index of Plays