(Hardback)

Examines "Passion Plays", "Mysteries and Moralities" as well as the folk farces that flourished during the Middle Ages. This work discusses developments during the Renaissance in Italy such as the commedia dell'arte, as well as exalted musical innovations culminating in operas and ballets.

(Hardback)

Part of the "Stage by Stage" series, this work is the study of theatre in the 'Age of Baroque', the exciting period from the last decades of the seventeenth century to the early years of the nineteenth. It offers an account of what happened on stage above the sputtering, smoky footlights - a mere two rows of candles - and behind the scenes.