The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 4

Chapter 3: NOTE

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This volume gathers anonymous dramatic pieces, masque texts, and descriptions of court receptions and entertainments, accompanied by critical notes on authorship, performance, and stagecraft. It provides transcriptions, variant editions, and commentary on individual plays, alongside plates and analyses of set designs and stage mechanisms, drawing on Serlio and Inigo Jones. Extensive appendices reproduce court calendars, payment records, censorship documents, plague and venue records, and indexes of plays, persons, places, and subjects to support research into production, reception, and cultural context.

NOTE

I have found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol < following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than that named, and the symbol > followed by a date, to indicate an uncertain date not later than that named. Thus 1903 < > 23 would indicate the composition date of any part of this book. I have sometimes placed the date of a play in italics, where it was desirable to indicate the date of production rather than publication.

The documents from J. R. Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council (1890–1907), are reprinted by permission of the Controller of His Majesty’s Stationery Office.