Meghan C. Andrews was Associate Professor of English at Lycoming CollegeAlan B. Farmer is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State UniversityElizabeth Zeman Kolkovich is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University Sarah Neville is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University

‘In this original, provocative, and compelling book, Meghan C. Andrews rescues Shakespeare from the romantic cliché of the singular playwright in some lonely garret. Instead, she persuasively locates him as a “company-keeper” within the vibrant social, intellectual, literary, and theatrical worlds of London, as she skillfully traces the connections and collaborations that contributed to Shakespeare becoming Shakespeare.’—David Scott Kastan, Yale University‘This thought-provoking book introduces us to a different Shakespeare, one in conversation with social networks circulating distinctive ideologies and artistic agendas. Such as one attached to the Middle Temple, where Warwickshire was strongly represented, connecting him with Drayton and Marston; another to the Sidney/Herbert circle, whose interest in neo-Stoicism clashed with Chapman's absolutism. A totally new perspective on Shakespeare and his contemporaries.’—Richard Dutton, Ohio State University

• Introduction: Social Shakespeare1 Warwickshire wits: Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, and tragic history, 1594–16132 Inns influencers: Shakespeare, John Marston, and problem plays, 1601–053 Patronage philosophers: Shakespeare, George Chapman, and Stoicism, 1599–1610Epilogue: Networks, net worksWorks citedMeghan C. Andrews, publications

Meghan C. Andrews was Associate Professor of English at Lycoming CollegeAlan B. Farmer is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State UniversityElizabeth Zeman Kolkovich is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University Sarah Neville is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University

‘In this original, provocative, and compelling book, Meghan C. Andrews rescues Shakespeare from the romantic cliché of the singular playwright in some lonely garret. Instead, she persuasively locates him as a “company-keeper” within the vibrant social, intellectual, literary, and theatrical worlds of London, as she skillfully traces the connections and collaborations that contributed to Shakespeare becoming Shakespeare.’—David Scott Kastan, Yale University‘This thought-provoking book introduces us to a different Shakespeare, one in conversation with social networks circulating distinctive ideologies and artistic agendas. Such as one attached to the Middle Temple, where Warwickshire was strongly represented, connecting him with Drayton and Marston; another to the Sidney/Herbert circle, whose interest in neo-Stoicism clashed with Chapman's absolutism. A totally new perspective on Shakespeare and his contemporaries.’—Richard Dutton, Ohio State University

• Introduction: Social Shakespeare1 Warwickshire wits: Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, and tragic history, 1594–16132 Inns influencers: Shakespeare, John Marston, and problem plays, 1601–053 Patronage philosophers: Shakespeare, George Chapman, and Stoicism, 1599–1610Epilogue: Networks, net worksWorks citedMeghan C. Andrews, publications

Meghan C. Andrews was Associate Professor of English at Lycoming CollegeAlan B. Farmer is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State UniversityElizabeth Zeman Kolkovich is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University Sarah Neville is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University

‘In this original, provocative, and compelling book, Meghan C. Andrews rescues Shakespeare from the romantic cliché of the singular playwright in some lonely garret. Instead, she persuasively locates him as a “company-keeper” within the vibrant social, intellectual, literary, and theatrical worlds of London, as she skillfully traces the connections and collaborations that contributed to Shakespeare becoming Shakespeare.’—David Scott Kastan, Yale University‘This thought-provoking book introduces us to a different Shakespeare, one in conversation with social networks circulating distinctive ideologies and artistic agendas. Such as one attached to the Middle Temple, where Warwickshire was strongly represented, connecting him with Drayton and Marston; another to the Sidney/Herbert circle, whose interest in neo-Stoicism clashed with Chapman's absolutism. A totally new perspective on Shakespeare and his contemporaries.’—Richard Dutton, Ohio State University

• Introduction: Social Shakespeare1 Warwickshire wits: Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, and tragic history, 1594–16132 Inns influencers: Shakespeare, John Marston, and problem plays, 1601–053 Patronage philosophers: Shakespeare, George Chapman, and Stoicism, 1599–1610Epilogue: Networks, net worksWorks citedMeghan C. Andrews, publications