Introduction: public theater and public health in the Early Modern Atlantic world -- "The money that comes from the plays": comedies and charitable urban public health -- Institutions in Madrid and London -- Playing in the port: theater in early modern Seville and Bristol -- Comedies in colonial contexts: theater in early modern Mexico City and Dublin -- "Aware that it is a public work": commercial drama in Puebla and Williamsburg -- "The plague of the Republic": antitheatrical sentiment and its limits in the Atlantic world -- Conclusion.
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