Playing with Materials: Performing effect on the indoor Jacobean stage

A chapter in the Routledge Companion to Scenography edited by Arnold Aronson. This is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays, brought together in one volume, to analyse the historical, conceptual, critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important area of performance studies. Commissioned especially for the volume, this chapter, ‘Playing with materials: performing effect on the indoor Jacobean stage,’ appears in the sub section History and Practice. It examines the move away from text based analysis in early modern scholarship to the study of plays in performance, with an increasing emphasis on materials and space.