Collecting a selection of Louise George Clubb's essays on sixteenth-century European literature alongside some of her contributions on Renaissance genres and the influence of Italian culture on English drama, this volume inaugurates the AIRSR series, masterfully illustrating Clubb's insightful understanding of Shakespeare's theatre and that of his contemporaries. By famously drawing a rich "system of seminal theatergrams" and offering innovative approaches to intertextual enquiry, these studies discuss the subtle thematic affinities and significant variations that characterised the development of different kinds of drama in the Anglo-Italian Renaissance tradition. The volume is perceptively introduced by Robert Henke.