Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English at Bangor University, UK.

"This comprehensive collection of essays, beginning with Andrew Hiscock's historical account of Women Beware Women, combines fresh research, provocative new interpretations and a useful account of performances of one of Middleton's most powerful plays. Such established scholars as Helen Wilcox, Robert C. Evans and Coppelia Kahn join new voices for pioneering work on a major English playwright."

• Series Introduction \ Timeline \ Introduction \ 1. The Critical Backstory, Robert C. Evans \ 2. Performance History, Paul Innes \ 3. The State of the Art - Current Critical Research, Joost Daalder \ 4. New Directions 1: Women Beware Women and Jacobean Cultural Narratives, Anne McLaren \ 5. New Directions 2: Women Beware Women and the Arts of Looking and Listening, Helen Wilcox \ 6. New Directions 3: Women Beware Women and Genre Theory, Edward Gieskes  7. New Directions 4: 'Two kings on one throne': Lust, Love and Marriage in Women Beware Women, Coppelia Kahn \ 8. Learning and Teaching Resources: Mapping Texts, Spaces and Bodies, Liz Oakley-Brown \Notes on Contributors / Index