Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-295) and index.
Contents:
1. Styles of the Stage: Addressing the Public in the Post-Reformation Period -- 2. From Audience to Public: Theatre, Theatricality and the People before the Civil Wars -- 3. Public Performances: Strategies of Theatricality during the Interregnum -- 3.1. Playing to the People: Contesting Performances during the Civil Wars -- 3.2. Theatres of State: Visions of Theatricality after Monarchy -- 3.3. Rehearsing Order: Change and Continuity in Interregnum Theatricality -- 4. Playing with Prohibition: Discourses of Theatre during the Interregnum -- 4.1. The Contested Stage: Territorializing the Theatre during the Civil Wars, 1642 -- 1648 -- 4.2. The Theatre of Carnal Copulation: The Pleasures of the Page, 1649 -- 1652 -- 4.3. Circumvention by Constraint: Reforming the Stage, Taming Theatricality, 1653 -- 1659.
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