This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for

The Description for this book, The Professions of Dramatist and Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642, will be forthcoming.

Gerald Eades Bentley assembles and analyzes the extant theatrical materials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His discussion of the working conditions

The only authoritative, one-volume book to describe all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama.