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'Leslie Thomson makes excellent use of her previous research into stage directions to give us a ground-breaking analysis of actions of 'discovery' on the Early Modern stage. This is an important book for scholars and students of theatre in the age of Shakespeare.' Ann Thompson, King's College London '... this study will help readers appreciate these plays as 'artefacts of another era.' Including a 16-page bibliography (primary and secondary works) and 32 illustrations, this is a valuable, detailed, and unique study. Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals.' J. S. Carducci, Choice 'Leslie Thomson makes excellent use of her previous research into stage directions to give us a ground-breaking analysis of actions of 'discovery' on the Early Modern stage. This is an important book for scholars and students of theatre in the age of Shakespeare.' Ann Thompson, King's College London '... this study will help readers appreciate these plays as 'artefacts of another era.' Including a 16-page bibliography (primary and secondary works) and 32 illustrations, this is a valuable, detailed, and unique study. Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals.' J. S. Carducci, Choice

'Leslie Thomson makes excellent use of her previous research into stage directions to give us a ground-breaking analysis of actions of 'discovery' on the Early Modern stage. This is an important book for scholars and students of theatre in the age of Shakespeare.' Ann Thompson, King's College London '... this study will help readers appreciate these plays as 'artefacts of another era.' Including a 16-page bibliography (primary and secondary works) and 32 illustrations, this is a valuable, detailed, and unique study. Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals.' J. S. Carducci, Choice `Leslie Thomson makes excellent use of her previous research into stage directions to give us a ground-breaking analysis of actions of 'discovery' on the Early Modern stage. This is an important book for scholars and students of theatre in the age of Shakespeare.' Ann Thompson, King's College London '... this study will help readers appreciate these plays as `artefacts of another era.' Including a 16-page bibliography (primary and secondary works) and 32 illustrations, this is a valuable, detailed, and unique study. Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals.' J. S. Carducci, Choice

'Leslie Thomson makes excellent use of her previous research into stage directions to give us a ground-breaking analysis of actions of 'discovery' on the Early Modern stage. This is an important book for scholars and students of theatre in the age of Shakespeare.' Ann Thompson, King's College London `Leslie Thomson makes excellent use of her previous research into stage directions to give us a ground-breaking analysis of actions of 'discovery' on the Early Modern stage. This is an important book for scholars and students of theatre in the age of Shakespeare.' Ann Thompson, King's College London

Advance praise: 'Leslie Thomson makes excellent use of her previous research into stage directions to give us a ground-breaking analysis of actions of 'discovery' on the Early Modern stage. This is an important book for scholars and students of theatre in the age of Shakespeare.' Ann Thompson, King's College London

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Leslie Thomson is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto. She is co-author (with Alan C. Dessen) of A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580–1642 (Cambridge, 1999) and editor of Anything for a Quiet Life in Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works (2010). She has published articles on a range of topics related to early modern stage directions and staging.

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