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204 - English-Speaking Audiences: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

from Part XXI - Audiences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Richard Preiss
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1493 - 1500
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Butterworth, Philip. Magic on the Early English Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
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