Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Theater Controversies in Early Modern England
Playhouse, Prayer-house, Profit, and Plague
Actors and Audience
Chapter 2 True Performing and Verses of Feigning Love: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Early Modern English Antitheatricality
"Verses of Feigning Love"—Poetry in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"True Performing"—Theater in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Conclusion: Poets and Players
Chapter 3 Hamlet as Shakespeare’s Defense of Theater
Ethical and Ontological Concerns about Theater
The Laughter of the Barren Spectators
Conclusion
Chapter 4 "In My Power": The Tempest as Shakespeare’s Antitheatrical Vision
Theater and Spectacle in The Tempest and in the Antitheatrical Discourse
Music in The Tempest
In Your Power: Shakespeare’s Defense of Music and Drama
Afterword Poets, Pipers, and Players
Index
Biography
Reut Barzilai is a lecturer at the University of Haifa, Israel. She has published articles in the academic journals Shakespeare and Multicultural Shakespeare and written several study guides on Shakespeare for the Open University.
