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Table of Contents
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List of Illustrations |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1: Royalist Dramatist |
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An Ambitious Young Man |
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Davenant the Dramatist |
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The Companies and Their Theatres |
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Towards War |
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Chapter 2: Setting the Scene |
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The Meaning of Court Masques |
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Staging the Masques |
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Staging Davenant’s Masques |
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Plays With Scenery |
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Chapter 3: The Innovator in the Interregnum |
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The Closure of the Theatres |
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The First Day’s Entertainment at Rutland House |
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The Siege of Rhodes |
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The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru |