Table of Contents

Introduction Part I Playhouses and audiences 1. Playhouses, stages and performances 2. The audiences and their culture Part II Popular dramturgy 3. Production values 4. Acting values 5. Telling the story 6. The fair maid of the west 7. The honest whore 8. If you know not me you know nobody 9. The true chronicle history of King Lear Appendix Notes Select Bibliography Index