The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
"This volume of essays situates Shakespeare in the context of his too often overlooked contemporary playwrights: Lyly, Peele, Green, Lodge, Nashe, Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Dekker, Heywood, Chapman, Beaumont, Fletcher, Middleton, Webster, Ford, Massinger, and Brome. The 16 concise essays focus primarily on individual writers, but with a productive emphasis on the links between them, including collaboration, competition, imitation, and parody."Choice"... a fine primer for the Shakespearean era."Reference Reviews