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  • Introduction: Demanding history / John D. Cox and Scott Kastan
  • 1. World pictures, modern periods, and the early stage / Margareta de Grazia
  • Part I. Early English drama and physical space :
  • 2. The English church as theatrical space / John M. Wasson
  • 3. "A commonty a Christmas gambold or a thumbling trick": Household theater / Suzanne Westfall
  • 4. The universities: early staging in Cambridge / Alan H .Nelson
  • Early staging in Oxford / John R. Elliott, Jr
  • 5. Streets and markets / Anne Higgins
  • 6. The theaters / John Orrell
  • 7. "Rowme" of its own: printed drama in early libraries / Heidi Brayman Hackel
  • Part II. Early English drama and social space :
  • 8. Theater and religious culture / Paul Whitfield White
  • 9. Wonderfull spectacles: theatre and civic culture / Gordon Kipling
  • 10. The theater and domestic culture / Diana W. Henderson
  • 11. Entertainments at court / Graham Parry
  • 12. The theater and literary culture / Barbara A. Mowat
  • 13. Theater and popular culture / Michael D. Bristol
  • Part III. Ear.y English drama and conditionf of performance and publication :
  • 14. Touring / Peter H- Greenfield
  • 15. "Cloathes worth all the rest": costumes and properties / Jean MacIntyre and Garreett P. J. Epp
  • 16. Censorship / Richard Dutton
  • 17. Audiences: investigation, interpretation, invention / Ann Jennalie Cook
  • 18. Rogues and rhetoricians: acting styles in early English drama / Peter Thomson
  • 19. Personnel and professionalization / W. R. Streitberger
  • 20. Playwriting: Autroship and collaboration / Jeffrey Masten
  • 21. The publication of playbooks / Peter W. M. Blayney
  • 22. Patronage and the economics of theater / Kathleen E. McLuskie and Felicity Dunsworth
  • 23. The revision of scripts / Eric Rasmussen
  • 24. The Repertory / Roslyn L. Knutson
  • 25. Plays in manuscript / Paul Werstine