THE DYNAMICS OF INHERITANCE ON THE SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE

First edition. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With eleven black and white illustrations throughout. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with a touch of rubbing to the spine tips. The contents, with some pencilled marginalia (by Professor Richard Rowland), a small ink line to the outer blank margin of page 113, and a small red publisher's stamp to the copyright page, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss, or tears.

Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Michelle M. Dowd explores the common issues that troubled early modern England's system of patrilineal inheritance, through close readings of canonical and noncanonical plays by Shakespeare, Webster, Jonson, and more. From the library of Dr Richard Rowland, editor and author on the Renaissance and classical mythology, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.