Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage: Extra-Theatrical Forms and Spaces

The first major work to explore and analyse the popular 'extra-theatrical' performances in late medieval and Renaissance England.

This wider heterogeneous category of early modern performance included puppetry, fireworks shows, rope dancing, minstrelsy, performing animals, games, civic drama, court masques, university drama, morris dances, and ceremonial rituals, all taking place in a variety of venues.

The volume reveals how these extra-theatrical productions shaped urban and rural life an...