Aidan Norrie is Chancellor's International Scholar in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. Mark Houlahan is Senior Lecturer and Programme Convenor in English at the University of Waikato, and immediate past President of the Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsForeword: The Stage on the Shore by Lisa HopkinsIntroduction: Edges, Spaces, and Intersections in Early Modern English Drama by Aidan Norrie and Mark HoulahanPart I. EdgesA Life on the Edge: Richard Bradshaw by Paul Brown"Thou Dream’st Awake": Ghosts and Sleep in Chapman's Antonio’s Revenge and Marston's Bussy D’Ambois by Chloe OwenCanting Queer Ken: Stage Magic and the Edge of Knowledge by Adam HembreeJames Shirley at the Edge of Town by Mark HoulahanPart 2. Spaces"Our Queen is Comming to the Town": Child Actors and Counsel in the Elizabethan Progresses of 1574 and 1578 by Aidan Norrie"And Huh, Too / For All Your Big Words!": Language and Multiculturalism in Philip Massinger’s The Renegado by Sophie Emma BattellInherited Insecurities and the Staging of Alterity: Islam in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine by Jeffrey McCambridge"The End of All": How a Forgotten Map Helped Us Forget Newington Butts by Laurie JohnsonPart 3. IntersectionsHamlet’s French Philosophy by Jennifer Nicholson"Then Turn Tail to Tail and Peace Be with You": John Fletcher’s The Woman’s Prize, or The Tamer Tamed, Menippean Satire and Same-Sex Desire by John Severn"Whose Plot Was This?": Shakespearean Convergences in Fletcher's The Wild Goose Chase by Gabriella Edelstein"They Always Speak Things as They Would Have Them": Aspirational Royalist Politics in Henry Killigrew's Pallantus and Eudora (1653) by Christopher OrchardNotes on ContributorsIndex of Persons, Places and Subjects