Presents and interprets evidence on the size, social composition, behavior, and the aesthetic and intellectual capacity of Shakespeare's audience.

An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.

In the title essay of this volume, Harbage admonishes the critics and directors whose modern--and often perverse--presentations of Shakespeare attempt to locate him in the theatre of the absurd.

Here is a book to hearten playgoers, stimulate young actors, lead theatrical executives to reconsider methods of management, and encourage benefactors to open their wallets.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.