Pedestrian practices fundamentally and irrevocably changed during the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries. Early modern texts, such as courtesy literature, medical treatises, and dialogues, reveal that walking was emerging as a new, elite leisure activity during the period. However, few records remain to demonstrate what walking was actually like. One rich source of evidence remains untapped: early modern playtexts. Dramatic representations of walking expose how new pedestrian styles actually materialised in practice, with stage directions and character descriptions offering remarkably detailed information about everyday embodied movement through space in Renaissance England. ‘Walking the Early Modern Stage’ will innovatively investigate the social performance of Renaissance walking, showing that staged pedestrianism reflected and shaped walking practices beyond the theatre. This is crucial historical work: exclusions made at the time on the basis of gender, race and class continue to reverberate through pedestrian inequality today, and continue to delimit who can walk, when, and where.