Emma Rhatigan is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research and publications focus on early modern texts in performance and their audiences. She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (2011) and is editing a volume of John Donne’s Inns of Court sermons for The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne.Jackie Watson holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, UK, and is an independent scholar. Author of Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse (2024), she publishes on the intersection between law and drama, including essays in recent collections such as Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance (2022) and Shakespeare/Sense (2020).

• Chapter 1- Introduction.- Part 1.- Chapter 2- Acting Like a Lawyer.- Chapter 3- A ‘fellowship in sin’: John Donne and Community in the Lincoln’s Inn Pulpit.- Chapter 4-Observe him for the love of mockery.- Chapter 5- Notebooks, Play, and Legal Education at Middle Temple.- Chapter 6 - The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn.- Chapter 7- The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn.- Chapter 8- From Inns of Court Revels and Masques to John Playford’s English Dancing Master.- Chapter 9- Mapping Selden’s Library.- Chapter 10- Lewiston Fitzjames and Other Stray Poets of the Inns of Court.- Part III-Beyond the Inns.- Chapter 11- George Gascoigne’s Proliferative Poetics.- Chapter 12- Gender, Revenge, and Legal Performance at the Inns of Court.- Chapter 13- Robert Ashley’s Translations and Paratexts (1589-1639).-  Chapter 13- Between Ship and Library Global Knowledge and Spaces of Exchange at the Middle Temple 1586 – 1636.

Emma Rhatigan is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research and publications focus on early modern texts in performance and their audiences. She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (2011) and is editing a volume of John Donne’s Inns of Court sermons for The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne.Jackie Watson holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, UK, and is an independent scholar. Author of Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse (2024), she publishes on the intersection between law and drama, including essays in recent collections such as Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance (2022) and Shakespeare/Sense (2020).

• Chapter 1- Introduction.- Part 1.- Chapter 2- Acting Like a Lawyer.- Chapter 3- A ‘fellowship in sin’: John Donne and Community in the Lincoln’s Inn Pulpit.- Chapter 4-Observe him for the love of mockery.- Chapter 5- Notebooks, Play, and Legal Education at Middle Temple.- Chapter 6 - The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn.- Chapter 7- The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn.- Chapter 8- From Inns of Court Revels and Masques to John Playford’s English Dancing Master.- Chapter 9- Mapping Selden’s Library.- Chapter 10- Lewiston Fitzjames and Other Stray Poets of the Inns of Court.- Part III-Beyond the Inns.- Chapter 11- George Gascoigne’s Proliferative Poetics.- Chapter 12- Gender, Revenge, and Legal Performance at the Inns of Court.- Chapter 13- Robert Ashley’s Translations and Paratexts (1589-1639).-  Chapter 13- Between Ship and Library Global Knowledge and Spaces of Exchange at the Middle Temple 1586 – 1636.

Emma Rhatigan is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research and publications focus on early modern texts in performance and their audiences. She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (2011) and is editing a volume of John Donne’s Inns of Court sermons for The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne.Jackie Watson holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, UK, and is an independent scholar. Author of Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse (2024), she publishes on the intersection between law and drama, including essays in recent collections such as Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance (2022) and Shakespeare/Sense (2020).

• Chapter 1- Introduction.- Part 1.- Chapter 2- Acting Like a Lawyer.- Chapter 3- A ‘fellowship in sin’: John Donne and Community in the Lincoln’s Inn Pulpit.- Chapter 4-Observe him for the love of mockery.- Chapter 5- Notebooks, Play, and Legal Education at Middle Temple.- Chapter 6 - The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn.- Chapter 7- The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn.- Chapter 8- From Inns of Court Revels and Masques to John Playford’s English Dancing Master.- Chapter 9- Mapping Selden’s Library.- Chapter 10- Lewiston Fitzjames and Other Stray Poets of the Inns of Court.- Part III-Beyond the Inns.- Chapter 11- George Gascoigne’s Proliferative Poetics.- Chapter 12- Gender, Revenge, and Legal Performance at the Inns of Court.- Chapter 13- Robert Ashley’s Translations and Paratexts (1589-1639).-  Chapter 13- Between Ship and Library Global Knowledge and Spaces of Exchange at the Middle Temple 1586 – 1636.