The Entertainers

320 pp. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. A unique encyclopedia of the stage, arranged chronologically: you'll find Shakespeare side by side with Christopher Marlowe and the Elizabethan actors Edward Alleyn and Richard Burbage. Next to them are illustrations of fifteen Shakespeare plays in performance, and then a full-page diagrammatic drawing of how the Elizabethan stage was constructed and operated. - jacket