Renaissance Theatre: A Historiographical Handbook

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Vince introduces readers to the sources of information available to the theatre historian, and to some of the methods that have been used in the interpretation of that evidence. He provides an analytical survey of the principal written and artifactual evidence for the history of the Renaissance theatres of Italy, Spain, England, and France. The book includes a discussion of the various types of evidence available to the theatre historian, with special reference to those sources that have proved to be of central importance, and an evaluative sketch of some of the most significant scholarship. Wherever possible, the reader is directed to original documents and sources that reproduce primary evidence. Each chapter concludes with a reference bibliography.

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RONALD W. VINCE, Professor of English at McMaster University, has published numerous studies and contributed chapters and journal articles on topics in theatre and drama. Among his books are Ancient and Medieval Theatre, Renaissance Theatre, and Neoclassical Theater (Greenwood Press, 1984, 1984, 1988).