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