Daisy Black is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of WolverhamptonKatharine Goodland is Professor of English at the College of Staten Island CUNY

"Eclectic and original... Black and Goodland’s collection is the product of an experimental and often enlivening approach to familiar materials."- Early Theatre 'This essay collection is designed to join the ranks of those volumes that, for several decades now, have labored to offer nuance to the traditional “Mankind to Marlowe” narrative in the study of premodern drama. The editors go beyond most earlier efforts in this scholarly turn by embedding the individual articles within a frame of paratexts that buttress their revisionist message.'Richard Utz, Speculum

• Introduction – Daisy Black and Katharine Goodland Prolegomena1 ‘Where the peaze is, shee shalbe Queene’: REED and the continuing life of medieval dramatic traditions – Peter H. Greenfield Part I: Transforming space2 The Lathom screen and the Magian plays of the Derby companies – Lawrence Manley 3 Promising a storm: anticipation, spectacle, and the ship in the Digby Mary Magdalene and Shakespeare and Wilkins' Pericles, Prince of Tyre – Daisy Black 4 ‘Ay, these were spectacles to please my soul’: satirising schadenfreude in Thomas Kyd’sThe Spanish Tragedy – Katharine Goodland Part II: Transforming character5 Shakespeare’s priests – Jay Zysk 6 Transforming Saint Dunstan on the Elizabethan stage – Gina M. Di Salvo 7 ‘Fals conjecture’: how costume transformed ‘player’ to ‘disguiser’ in late medieval and Renaissance drama – Katie Normington Part III: Transforming tropes 8 Transforming recognition: The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, and the Elevation of the Host – Matthew J. Smith 9 Under the castle, inside the counting house: shelter and exposure on the deathbed in The Castle of Perseverance and The Jew of Malta – Devin Byker 10 The forest palimpsest in As You Like It and the medieval imaginary – Victoria Bladen Afterword – Theresa Coletti Index