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  • Cover; Copyright and licence; Title Page; A Note on the Author ; Introduction; 2. The new theatres; 3. Attitudes to theatre and players.; 4. Audiences and expectations; 5. The Acting Space: Limitations and resources; 6. Props; 7. 'A Play toward': the companies, actors and acting; 8. Kinds of plays ; History; Tragedy; Revenge tragedy; Pastoral; Comedy; 9. Epilogue; Further Reading; Appendix 1: Some dramatists working in the period 1585-1625; Francis Beaumont (1584/5-1616) ; George Chapman (ca. 1559-May 12, 1634); Henry Chettle (1564?-1607?) ; Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-1632).
  • Fletcher, John (1579-1625)Robert Greene (?1560-1592); Jasper Heywood (1535-1598); Thomas Heywood (died c. 1650), ; Ben Jonson (1572-1637); Thomas Kyd (1558-94); John Lyly (c. 1553-1606); Christopher Marlowe (1564-93); John Marston (1576-1634) ; Thomas Middleton (1580-1627); George Peele (1558?-1598); William Shakespeare (1564-1616); Cyril Tourneur (c. 1575-1626); John Webster (c. 1580-c. 1625) ; War of the theatres ; Appendix 2: An Outline Chronology of Political Events (with dates of some important plays on historical themes); Appendix 3: Hyperlinked Materials.
  • Appendix 4: Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of ManConceptual Index; Other Insights.