Scott Oldenburg is professor of English at Tulane University. He is author of A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London.

Matteo Pangallo is associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is author of Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare’s Theater.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reading Early Modern Drama after Brexit by Scott Oldenburg and Matteo Pangallo

Chapter 1. “The Uncertainty of This World”: Shakespeare in “Unprecedented” Times by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton

Chapter 2. Profiting in Babylon: Transnationalism and Typology in the Biblical Drama of the English Traveling Theater by Kevin Chovanec

Chapter 3. Astonished and Amazed: Early Modern English Black Christianity and Respectability Politics in Middleton and Munday’s The Triumphs of Truth by Jamie Paris

Chapter 4. The Nation Embarrassed: Shameful Memories in the Henriad by John S. Garrison and Kyle Pivetti

Chapter 5. Building a Wall around Tudor England: Coastal Forts and Fantasies of Border Control in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Todd Andrew Borlik

Chapter 6. The Brut, the Bruce, and Brexit: Scottish Independence in The Valiant Scot (1637), The Outlaw King (2018), and Robert the Bruce (2019) by Vimala C. Pasupathi

Chapter 7. English Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorus by Matt Carter

Chapter 8. “Let Burnt Sack Be the Issue": Immigrants as Threat and Remedy in William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor by Heather Bailey

Chapter 9. “Thou Hast Incurred the Danger”: Shylock, Brexit, and Urban Citizenship by William Casey Caldwell

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