"This is a carefully argued and meticulously researched book. The high production values of Oxford University Press are matched by Nicosia's attention to detail and judicious use of unusual primary sources alongside more obvious choices. This kind of wide-ranging approach to seventeenth-century writing is exemplary, and an excellent example of how the new generation of early modern literary scholars is transforming the discipline, at a time when one can only hope that that discipline can survive the current vicissitudes attacking humanities departments, and move forward into a brighter future that, like the chronicle plays, it is incumbent upon us to imagine." -- Paul Salzman, Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Inc."Marissa Nicosia offers a compelling account of how writers between 1590 and 1660, in chronicle plays and play pamphlets, thought about the future by performing the past . [this is] a work of generous scholarship that seeks to build productively on its own literary-historical predecessors." -- Andrew Bricker, Shakespeare Quarterly"an excellent example of careful, wide-ranging, historically informed analysis" -- Paul Salzman, Parergon"Nicosia's Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play is a groundbreaking and fundamental contribution to the study of the English chronicle of the mid-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, offering new perspectives on the relationship between history, time and the construction of myth. In these texts, according to Nicosia, time appears to the reader as a contract between the past, the present and the future.

These three dimensions comprise both tangible facts and hypothetical realities, as well as a consideration of potential outcomes." -- Sonia Aires Lima, Modern Language Studies.