In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare’s plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater. <br /> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>Introduces students to Shakespeare's plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.<br /> </li> <li>Focuses on the material conditions of playing and of playgoing.<br /> </li> <li>Covers venues, audiences, actors, society, government and regulation.<br /> </li> <li>Each topic is considered in relation to a selection of Shakespeare's plays.<br /> </li> <li>Shows students how the plays and the context in which they were produced illuminate one another.</li> </ul>