The first full-length study of the ways in which Shakespearean drama influenced and expanded notions of inheritance in early modern England.

Early modern England's system of patrilineal inheritance, in which the eldest son inherited his father's estate and title, was one of the most significant force

The traditional view of Shakespeare’s mastery of the English language is alive and well today. This is an effect of the eighteenth-century canonisation of his

Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an

An original study of the ways in which temporal concepts and gendered identities intersect in early modern theatre and culture.