First published in 1999, this volume examines iconography, nature, gardens, staging, tradition and innovation in the Renaissance theatre, continuing the growing interest in relationships between image and performance as a fertile field for theatre research.

1. Shakespeare's Ambiguous Magic in The Tempest. Bent Holm. 2. Mountebanks, Mummers and Masqueraders in Thomas Platter's Diary (1595-1600). M. A. Katritzky. 3. The Figure of Desdemona in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Illustrations. Margaret Rose. 4. Alone of All Her Sex: Elizabeth Cary, the Viscountess Falkland. Valerie Lucas. 5. The Portrait of Elizabeth Cary in the Ashmolean Museum: 'Cross Dressing' in the English Renaissance. Ronnie Mirkin. 6. Shakespeare's Italian Nature, or, From Garden to Stage. Caroline Patey. 7. 'What is't You Lack?' Comedic Obligations in Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Andrew Stott. 8. Adjusting the Canon for Later Fifteenth-Century Florence: the Case of Antonia Pulci. Judith Bryce. 9. Venues and Staging in Ruzante's Theatre: a Practitioner's Experience. Ronnie Ferguson. 10. Candelaio: la Commedia di un Filosofo. Lia Buono Hodgart. 11. 'La Musica Ben Adattata è l'Anima e 'l Condito di Tutta la Festa': Music and Poetry in Michelangelo Buonarroti il giovane's Il Giudizio di Paride (1608). Janie Cole.