Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Foreword SHAKESPEARE AND MEMENTO MORI: ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES Remember (Me) Sarah R.A. Waters, Sterling College, US Macbeth, Herod, and the Ars Moriendi Grace Tiffany, Western Michigan University, US “Now Die, Die, Die, Die, Die!” Dicing as Memento Mori in Shakespeare’s Early Comedies Nora L. Corrigan, Mississippi University for Women, US Dig This: Hamlet and the Gravedigger Joe Ricke, Taylor University, US Shakespearean Meditations on Death, Beauty, and Art: “a sea change / Into something rich and strange” Tiffany Schubert, Wyoming Catholic College, US The Female Body as Memento Mori in King Lear Susan Dunn-Hensley, Wheaton College, US ARTICLES “The boone Delphic god / Drinks sack”: Ben Jonson and the Canary Quarrels Victoria M. Muñoz, Adelphi University, US The Well-Traveled Translator-Knight Who Wrote the Ur-Hamlet June Schlueter (Lafayette College, US) and Dennis McCarthy (independent scholar) Silence in Shakespeare’s Richard II David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas, US Intercessor or Nag? Reimagining the Female Saint of Medieval Drama in Shakespeare’s Problem Plays Hannah Elizabeth Bowling, Lincoln University of Missouri, US Women with Weapons on the Early Modern Stage Leslie Thomson, University of Toronto, Canada REVIEWS Bradley J. Irish, Disgust in Shakespeare: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion, London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Paul Budra, Simon Fraser University, Canada Katherine Schapp Williams, Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theatre, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. Katey Roden, Gonzaga University, US Roberta Kwan, Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self, Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. Jay Zysk, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US Index About the Editors and Contributors