Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre
In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both ''pageant vehicle'' and ''theatre-in-the-round'' are described and analysed to consider their impact on playing by players, expositors, narrators and prompters...
In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both ''pageant vehicle'' and ''theatre-in-the-round'' are described and analysed to consider their impact on playing by players, expositors, narrators and prompters...
