Theatre and government under the early Stuarts / edited by J.R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring.

Contents: Introduction : theatre and government under the early Stuarts / J. R. Mulryne -- Early Stuart politics : revisionism and after / Simon Adams -- Ben Jonson and the master of the Revels / Richard Dutton -- The politics of the Jacobean masque / Graham Parry -- Reform or reverence? The politics of the Caroline masque / Martin Butler -- The Spectacle of the Realm : civic consciousness, rhetoric and ritual in early modern London / James Knowles -- The Reformation plays on the public stage / Julia Gasper -- Politics and dramatic form in early modern tragedy / Kathleen McLuskie -- Drama and opinion in the 1620s : Middleton and Massinger / Margot Heinemann.