In 1592 the face of theatre  changed forever. From the death of Julius Caesar and its wide political  ramifications, to the love between Antony and Cleopatra played out on an  epic scale, tragic drama had traditionally been associated with the  lives of noble characters drawn from a ruling elite. But the anonymous  play The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham enabled playwrights to  conceive of the stage as the setting for more intimate, family dramas.  Iman Sheeha, of the University of Warwick, treads the boards of the new  domestic tragedies around the turn of the sixteenth century.

This  talk was recorded as part of the series Late Summer Lectures in 2017,  organised by the Department of English Studies at Durham University.

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