Publisher description "This is a lovely book, and it blows in like a breath of fresh air.

The Elizabethan Theatre and "The Book of Sir Thomas More" sets aside the timeworn question of authorship and considers the play in a new framework, one which by focusing on questions of the theatre attempts to free Elizabethan theatre ...

He examines the ways in which Emerson's texts have been read in the United States, the myriad methods by which those texts have been pillaged, picked over, and repackaged - in a word, consumed - by biographers, political apologists, self ...

This work is from a series on the performing and staging styles used in Shakespeare's plays.

This is the first book devoted to the Queen's Men, one of the major acting companies of the age of Shakespeare.