1st Edition
Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama Staged Communities
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Neighbouring in Early Modern England
Chapter 1: ‘[A] neighbour of yours […] up she took a needle or a pin’: Neighbourly Tensions in Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Chapter 2: ‘I say shees my deadly enemie’: Female Neighbourly Quarrels and Male Alliances in The Two Angry Women of Abington
Chapter 3: Alliances and Divisions: Female Neighbourly Networks in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Chapter 4: ‘[S]o near a neighbour, and so unkind’: Home and Neighbourhood in Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Iman Sheeha is a senior lecturer in Shakespeare and early modern literature at Brunel University of London. She has authored Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy (Routledge, 2020) and co-edited a special issue on liminal domestic spaces for Early Modern Literary Studies (2020). Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare, Early Theatre, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Early Modern Literary Studies, and American Notes and Queries. She contributed a chapter to People and Piety: Devotional Writing in Print and Manuscript in Early Modern England (2019) and wrote the Introduction to the forthcoming Oxford World Classics The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham (2025).
