A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.

General introduction Sophie Chiari and John Mucciolo; Part I. Elizabethan Court Theatre: 1. Palamon and Arcite: early Elizabethan court theatre Richard Dutton; 2. Revels at the court of Elizabeth I, 1594-1603 W. R. Streitberger; 3. Multiple Marlowe: Doctor Faustus and court performance Roy Eriksen; 4. The court theatre response to the public theatre debate in a Midsummer Night's Dream Janna Segal; Part II. The Jacobean Tradition: 5. Masculine dreams: Henry V and the Jacobean politics of court performance Murat Ö¿ütcü; 6. Jacobean royal premieres? Othello and Measure for Measure at Whitehall in 1604 Jason Lawrence; 7. Pericles: a performance, a letter (1619) David M. Bergeron; 8. 'The old name is fresh about me': architectural mimesis and court spaces in All is True Catherine Clifford; Part III. Reassessing the Stuart Masque: 9. Dancing at court: 'the art that all arts doe approve' Anne Daye; 10. The Tempest and the Jonsonian masque Martin Butler; 11. Noble masquing at the Stuart court Leeds Barroll; 12. 'Animated porcelain of the court': Stuart masquers as magical automata Agnieszka ¿ukowska; Part IV. The Material Conditions of Performances at Court: 13. How did they do it? Problems of staging plays at court William B. Long; 14. The Jacobean banqueting house as a performance space John H. Astington; 15. Musicians at court Chantal Schütz; 16. Painted cloths and the making of Whitehall's playing space; 1611-12 Rebecca Olson; Index.