Dr Peter Orford and his editing team have collected articles from the next generation of Shakespeare scholars to offer a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. The essays included were presented at the International British Graduate Shakespeare Conference and represent research from around the globe, either exploring new territory, or redefining the work of those before them. In his foreword, Professor Stanley Wells states that 'The essays printed here demonstrate that the future of early modern dramatic scholarship and criticism is in good hands. The articles included are: o Seldom Seene: Observations from Editing The Launching of the Mary, or the Seaman's Honest Wife by Matteo Pangallo o Thomas Heywood and the Construction of Taste in the Repertory of Queen Henrietta's Men by Eleanor Collins o Bawdiness, Crime and Low Characters in Late Elizabethan Comedy by Shelly Hsin-Yi Hsieh o Print and Elizabethan Military Culture by Dong-Ha Seo o Actors, Audiences and Authors: The Competition for Control in Brome's The Antipodes by Audrey Birkett o Shakespeare's King Richard III: The Perverted Machiavel by Conny Loder o Women in the Shakespearean Audience - Recognition and Authority by Brian Schneider o Dis-playing History: The Case of Shakespeare's Globe by Kelly Jones o 'Ever Holy and Unstained': Illuminating the Feminist Cenci Through Mary Wollstonecraft and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus by Kristine Johansan o Narcissus and Modernity in Shakespeare's Sonnets by Will McKenzie o Cowboys and Romans: Cymbeline and Paradigmatic Change in the Theatre by Miles Gregory