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Representing France and the French in Early Modern English Drama

Brings together previously unpublished evidence of France's role and importance in the early modern English literary and dramatic fields. The collection covers many genres and provides insights into the work of a large number of early modern dramatists, including major playwrights as well as lesser-known writers.

The first major work written on the history of Anglo- French literary relations,
Sidney Lee's The French Renaissance in England (1910), stated that France was
no less than a "civilizing missionary" for England.1 Lee's grand statement was
symptomatic of his view of the Renaissance itself. For him the Renaissance,
particularly the English Renaissance, was a massive effort to "eliminate
barbarism and rusticity from the field of man's thought, and to substitute
humanism and liberal culture ...