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In 2024, we honour our President and former Chair, Mrs Leah Scragg, by turning our attention to the work of the Elizabethan prose writer, poet, and dramatist John Lyly. The Malone Society conference will be dedicated to Lyly’s comedy Campaspe (1583), originally performed by the children’s company at the Blackfriars playhouse, and subsequently presented … Read more
The Malone Society’s online shop will be closed between 15 December 2023 and 8 January 2024. Any orders received during the closure will be sent out as soon as the shop opens in January.
We are delighted to announce that the Malone Society October book sale has now launched. For the entire month, dozens of our titles are available at the reduced price of £15, with members receiving a further £10 off by entering the discount MALSOCMEM when asked for a coupon code at the checkout. The full list … Read more
We are delighted to announce that registration for this year’s Malone Society conference, on Mucedorus, is now open. This year the Malone Society conference is dedicated to the exhilarating A Most Pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus (c. 1591), arguably the most popular play of the English Renaissance. Reprinted almost twice as often as any other play … Read more
We’re delighted to invite you to the online launch of our 2022 annual volume on Saturday 25 February at 2pm GMT! The Malone Society and Reading Early Plays will be hosting an online reading of William Percy’s The Aphrodysial to mark the launch of Maria Shmygol‘s new edition of the play. At the undersea court of King … Read more
The Malone Society is proud to present our 2021 online conference. This year we will be turning to Ben Jonson’s comedy The Devil Is an Ass, one of his best loved, most enduring, and funniest creations. The day will start with an introductory lecture by James Loxley (Professor of English, University of Edinburgh), followed by … Read more
The Coronavirus outbreak in the UK means that we are currently unable to access our stock until at least 1 June. We have therefore closed our online shop. Any orders that were received in the week commencing 23 March will be sent out as soon as we are able to do so. You can still … Read more
The Society are delighted to offer as a gift for Valentine’s day some extracts from our Collections volumes. Click here to read a scandalous play performed at St Paul’s School in 1584 and a set of records of performance at New Romney, Kent, stretching from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century and featuring a motley … Read more
The Malone Society is delighted to announce the publication of its 2019 volume, an edition of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus 1616 by Professor Chiaki Hanabusa of Keio University, Tokyo. Like its companion volume, Doctor Faustus 1604 (2018), this is a full-colour 1:1 reproduction of the base text, the only surviving copy of Q4 in the British Library (C.34.d.26). Together, … Read more
The Malone Society is proud to host its 2019 conference at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday 6 July. This year we focus on Philip Massinger’s powerful creation, The Roman Actor. The play, which premiered in 1626, is one of Massinger’s crucial achievements as a dramatist, a piece full of dark humour and metatheatrical … Read more