The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: playing author; 1. Publishing the fool: Robert Armin and the collective production of mirth; 2. The actor-playwright and the true poet: Nathan Field, Ben Jonson and the prerogatives of the author; 3. Anthony Munday and the spectacle of martyrdom; 4. 'Some zanie with his mimick action': Thomas Heywood and the staging of humanist authority; Coda: the Shakespearean silence; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.