Andrew McRae is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter.

• Introduction - Renaissance drama in context; playhouses and players - the conditions of Renaissance drama; "what a piece of work" - issues of identity; of love - desire and domesticity; society - the problem of order; staging religion - the meaning of thunder; the court - issues of power; encountering otherness - race and colonialism; epilogue - a word about endings.

Andrew McRae is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter.

• Introduction - Renaissance drama in context; playhouses and players - the conditions of Renaissance drama; "what a piece of work" - issues of identity; of love - desire and domesticity; society - the problem of order; staging religion - the meaning of thunder; the court - issues of power; encountering otherness - race and colonialism; epilogue - a word about endings.

Andrew McRae is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter.

• Introduction - Renaissance drama in context; playhouses and players - the conditions of Renaissance drama; "what a piece of work" - issues of identity; of love - desire and domesticity; society - the problem of order; staging religion - the meaning of thunder; the court - issues of power; encountering otherness - race and colonialism; epilogue - a word about endings.