This collection examines some of the people places and plays at the edge of early modern
English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge
particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people
and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions
both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays and without in the real worlds of
playmakers theaters and audiences. The book engages with topics such as child actors
alterity sexuality foreignness and locality to acknowledge and extend the rich sense of
playmaking and all its ancillary activities that have emerged over the last decade. The essays
by a global team of scholars bring to life people and practices that flourished on the edge
manifesting their importance to both early modern audiences and to current readers and
performers.
