MARK THORNTON BURNETT is a Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast. He is author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience, editor of Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays and Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems.

'An informative and articulate contribution to the subject of monster studies and a fascinating development in the exploration of Renaissance drama... this book [is] a rarity and a wonder in itself.' - Kevin Stagg, Gothic Studies

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Mapping 'Monsters' The Strangest Man that Ever Nature Made: Manufacturing 'Monsters' in Tamburlaine the Great 'Monsters' and 'Molas': Body Politics in Richard III As it is Credibly Thought: Conceiving 'Monsters' in Othello Were I in England Now: Localizing 'Monsters' in The Tempest If There be Never a Servant-Monster: Translating 'Monsters' in Bartholomew Fair Epilogue Bibliography Index

MARK THORNTON BURNETT is a Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast. He is author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience, editor of Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays and Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems.

'An informative and articulate contribution to the subject of monster studies and a fascinating development in the exploration of Renaissance drama... this book [is] a rarity and a wonder in itself.' - Kevin Stagg, Gothic Studies

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Mapping 'Monsters' The Strangest Man that Ever Nature Made: Manufacturing 'Monsters' in Tamburlaine the Great 'Monsters' and 'Molas': Body Politics in Richard III As it is Credibly Thought: Conceiving 'Monsters' in Othello Were I in England Now: Localizing 'Monsters' in The Tempest If There be Never a Servant-Monster: Translating 'Monsters' in Bartholomew Fair Epilogue Bibliography Index

MARK THORNTON BURNETT is a Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast. He is author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience, editor of Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays and Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems.

'An informative and articulate contribution to the subject of monster studies and a fascinating development in the exploration of Renaissance drama... this book [is] a rarity and a wonder in itself.' - Kevin Stagg, Gothic Studies

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Mapping 'Monsters' The Strangest Man that Ever Nature Made: Manufacturing 'Monsters' in Tamburlaine the Great 'Monsters' and 'Molas': Body Politics in Richard III As it is Credibly Thought: Conceiving 'Monsters' in Othello Were I in England Now: Localizing 'Monsters' in The Tempest If There be Never a Servant-Monster: Translating 'Monsters' in Bartholomew Fair Epilogue Bibliography Index