"Whigham succeeds admirably in his effort to complicate and expand historicist analysis of the notion of will, and this book provides a fine map for further critical exploration of early modern English Drama." B.R. Siegfried, The Sixteenth Century Journal

• Introduction; 1. Forcing divorce in The Spanish Tragedy; 2. Hunger and pain in Arden of Faversham; 3. The ideology of prodigality in The Miseries of an Enforced Marriage, and A Yorkshire Tragedy; 4. Sexual and social mobility in The Duchess of Malfi; Afterword.

"Whigham succeeds admirably in his effort to complicate and expand historicist analysis of the notion of will, and this book provides a fine map for further critical exploration of early modern English Drama." B.R. Siegfried, The Sixteenth Century Journal

• Introduction; 1. Forcing divorce in The Spanish Tragedy; 2. Hunger and pain in Arden of Faversham; 3. The ideology of prodigality in The Miseries of an Enforced Marriage, and A Yorkshire Tragedy; 4. Sexual and social mobility in The Duchess of Malfi; Afterword.

"Whigham succeeds admirably in his effort to complicate and expand historicist analysis of the notion of will, and this book provides a fine map for further critical exploration of early modern English Drama." B.R. Siegfried, The Sixteenth Century Journal

• Introduction; 1. Forcing divorce in The Spanish Tragedy; 2. Hunger and pain in Arden of Faversham; 3. The ideology of prodigality in The Miseries of an Enforced Marriage, and A Yorkshire Tragedy; 4. Sexual and social mobility in The Duchess of Malfi; Afterword.