Taking a deliberately capacious approach to “trans drama,” this volume’s essays include:

• Trans studies readings for commonly taught “gender” plays like Galatea, The Roaring Girl, Twelfth Night, and Epicoene—while problematizing the idea that these plays are or should be part of an emerging canon of “trans plays”

• Pieces that conceptualize early modern drama in trans ways beyond and outside this emerging canon. Our sense of “drama” is broadly construed: analyses of plays, masques, and closet dramas, performance approaches to contemporary and historical stagings and cross-gender casting, materialist histories of the body in performance, and more.

• Discussions of early modern drama beyond the English stage, including but not limited to: interpersonal drama, scandal, conspiracy, and gossip.