CONTENTS

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List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Theater History as a Challenge to Literary History

Chapter 1. Shirley’s Hand

Chapter 2. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: London
Mummings and Disguisings

Chapter 3. Performing Pictures

Chapter 4. Performance and Gloss: The Procession of Corpus Christi

Chapter 5. Inscription and Ceremony: The 1432 Royal Entry

Chapter 6. Edible Theater

Chapter 7. The Queen’s Dumbshows

Chapter 8. On Drama’s Trail

Afterword

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Acknowledgments