Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-543) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : demanding history / John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan -- World pictures, modern periods, and the early stage / Margreta de Grazia -- The English church as theatrical space / John M. Wasson -- "A commonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling trick" : Household Theater / Suzanne Westfall -- The universities : early staging in Cambridge / Alan H. Nelson -- Early staging in Oxford / John R. Elliott, Jr -- Streets and markets / Anne Higgins -- The theaters / John Orrell -- "Rowme" of its own : printed drama in early libraries / Heidi Brayman Hackel -- Theater and religious culture / Paul Whitfield White -- Wonderfull spectacles : theater and civic culture / Gordon Kipling -- The theatre and domestic culture / Diana E. Henderson -- Entertainments at court / Graham Parry -- The theater and literary culture / Barbara A. Mowat -- Theater and popular culture / Michael D. Bristol -- Touring / Peter H. Greenfield -- "Cloathes worth all the rest" : costumes and properties / Jean MacIntyre and Garrett P.J. Epp -- Censorship / Richard Dutton -- Audiences : investigation, interpretation, invention / Ann Jennalie Cook -- Rogues and rhetoricians : acting styles in early English drama / Peter Thomson -- Personnel and professionalization / W.R. Streitberger -- Playwrighting : authorship and collaboration / Jeffrey Masten -- The publication of playbooks / Peter W.M. Blayney -- Patronage and the economics of theater / Kathleen E. McLuskie and Felicity Dunsworth -- The revision of scripts / Eric Rasmussen -- The repertory / Roslyn L. Knutson -- Plays in manuscript / Paul Werstine.
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