This volume presents the proceedings of the international conference ¿Theatre Cultures within
Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain¿ held in 2012 as part of the
ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet).
Implementing the concept of culture as a virtual network it investigates Early modern European
drama and its global dissemination. The 12 articles of the volume ¿ all written by experts in
the field teaching in the United Kingdom the USA Russia Switzerland India and Germany ¿
focus on a selection of English and Spanish dramas from the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. Analysing and comparing motifs formal parameters as well as plot structures they
discuss the commonalities and differences of Early modern drama in England and Spain.
