HISTORY, RELIGION, AND VIOLENCE. Cultural Contexts for Medieval and Renaissance English Drama.

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. With 17 black and white illustrations throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps.

'Professor Davidson is concerned here to chart public theatrical display as a barometer of developments in the English Middle Ages and Renaissance. This book brings together twelve previously published articles on historical and religious aspects of the early English theatre as well as an original essay on Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the Papacy' (publisher's blurb).