Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

S. P. Cerasano is the Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.Heather Anne Hirschfeld is distinguished professor of the humanities in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee.Edward Gieskes is professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

• ForewordSHAKESPEARE AND MEMENTO MORI: ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIESRemember (Me)Sarah R.A. Waters, Sterling College, USMacbeth, Herod, and the Ars MoriendiGrace Tiffany, Western Michigan University, US“Now Die, Die, Die, Die, Die!” Dicing as Memento Mori in Shakespeare’s Early ComediesNora L. Corrigan, Mississippi University for Women, USDig This: Hamlet and the GravediggerJoe Ricke, Taylor University, USShakespearean Meditations on Death, Beauty, and Art: “a sea change / Into something rich and strange”Tiffany Schubert, Wyoming Catholic College, USThe Female Body as Memento Mori in King LearSusan Dunn-Hensley, Wheaton College, USARTICLES“The boone Delphic god / Drinks sack”: Ben Jonson and the Canary QuarrelsVictoria M. Muñoz, Adelphi University, USThe Well-Traveled Translator-Knight Who Wrote the Ur-HamletJune Schlueter (Lafayette College, US) and Dennis McCarthy (independent scholar)Silence in Shakespeare’s Richard IIDavid M. Bergeron, University of Kansas, USIntercessor or Nag? Reimagining the Female Saint of Medieval Drama in Shakespeare’s Problem PlaysHannah Elizabeth Bowling, Lincoln University of Missouri, USWomen with Weapons on the Early Modern StageLeslie Thomson, University of Toronto, CanadaREVIEWSBradley J. Irish, Disgust in Shakespeare: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion, London: Bloomsbury, 2023.Paul Budra, Simon Fraser University, CanadaKatherine Schapp Williams, Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theatre, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021.Katey Roden, Gonzaga University, USRoberta Kwan, Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self, Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. Jay Zysk, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USIndex About the Editors and Contributors