This volume brings together three late sixteenth-century popular stage romances of travel and conquest in the Muslim East. The plays are introduced, contextualised and edited for the first time in a modern-spelling edition.

Ladan Niayesh is Professor of English Studies at the University of Paris Diderot - Paris 7

ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION
- Romance and conquest in early modern England
- The plays
- The texts
THE PLAYS
- The comical history of Alphonsus, King of Aragon by Robert Greene
- The tragedy of Soliman and Perseda by Thomas Kyd
- The Four Prentices of London by Thomas Heywood
Index