The Cambridge History of British Theatre

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Three Volume Set [3 Volume Set]. Vols. 1-3. Bound in red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Vol. 1 edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. Vol. 2 edited by Joseph Donahue. Vol. 3 edited by Baz Kershaw. All three volumes contain notes to the table of contents but the rest of the pages are clean.

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Volume One of The Cambridge History of British Theatre begins in Roman Britain and ends with Charles II's restoration to the throne imminent. The four essays in Part One treat pre-Elizabethan theatre, the eight in Part Two focus on the riches of the Elizabethan era, and the seven in Part Three on theatrical developments during and after the reigns of James I and Charles I. The essays are written for the general reader by leading British and American scholars, who combine an interest in the written drama with an understanding of the material conditions of the evolving professional theatre which the drama helped to sustain, often enough against formidable odds. The volume unfolds a story of enterprise, innovation and, sometimes, of desperate survival over years in which theatre and drama were necessarily embroiled in the politics of everyday life: a vivid subject vividly presented.