ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL THEATRE 1530-1660

Reprint. Softcover. Publisher's original navy covers, with white titles in white and light blue. With eight black and white illustrations throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh, with a touch of rubbing to the extremities, and some wrinkling to the laminate of the spine. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps.

'This volume explores the professional English theatre from 1530 to 1660. The documents collected here, many published for the first time, chronicle the exciting and flourishing world of the theatre through the reigns of Henry VIII to Charles I and the Commonwealth. [...] The volume documents the various theatre companies of children, costumes and stage property matters, audience reception and behaviour and ecclesiastical and governmental legislation' (publisher's blurb).