The book outlines the semiotic universe of Jacobean drama, examining both canonical tragedies by Thomas Middleton, John Webster and less known dramas such as Anonymous Lust's Dominion, Markham and Sampson's Herod and Antipater or Thierry and Theodoret by Beaumont and Fletcher.

Justyna Laura Galant is assistant professor in the Department of English Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She publishes on Renaissance drama, utopia and dystopia in literature, on film and the new media.

Contents: Jacobean tragedy - Semiotics and drama - Thomas Middeton - John Webster - John Marston - Markham and Sampson - Beaumont and Fletcher - Lust's Dominion - Jurij Lotman - Mikhail Bakhtin.