This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth o

Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.

Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic his

This book presents new and overarching perspectives on the relationship between theatre and public from the Henrician Reformation through the interregnum to the

A Monster with a Thousand Hands makes visible a figure that has been largely overlooked in early modern scholarship on theater and audiences: the discursive spe