Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-193) and index.
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Contents
Prologue: Evergreen Fantasies: Utopia's Trees and Early Modern Theatre -- Introduction: Wood, Timber, and Theatre in Early Modern England -- 1 "Vanish the tree": Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay at the Rose -- 2 "Come, will this wood take fire" The Merry Wives of Windsor in Shakespeare's Theatres -- 3 "Down with these branches and these loathsome boughs / Of this unfortunate and fatal pine": The Composite Spanish Tragedy at the Fortune -- 4 "There's wood enough within": The Tempest's Logs and the Resources of Shakespeare's Globe -- Epilogue: The Afterlives of the Globe.