| Acknowledgments | [v] |
| Introduction | [ix] |
| One: THE REPERTORY | [1] |
| Two: THE DRAMATURGY | [24] |
| I. | Premises for a Study of Shakespearean Dramatic Form | [27] |
| II. | Form and Function in the Finales of the Globe Plays | [35] |
| III. | The Nature and Form of the “Climax” in the Globe Plays | [40] |
| IV. | Structural Patterns in the Dramatic Narrative | [45] |
| V. | Scene Structure in Shakespeare | [54] |
| VI. | Dramatic Unity in the Globe Plays | [57] |
| Three: THE STAGE | [63] |
| I. | Localization in Shakespeare’s Globe Plays | [64] |
| II. | The Parts of the Stage | [69] |
| III. | The Design of the Stage | [101] |
| Four: THE ACTING | [109] |
| I. | The Relation of Tudor Rhetoric to Elizabethan Acting | [113] |
| II. | The Influence of Theatrical Traditions upon Elizabethan Acting | [121] |
| III. | The Effect of Playing Conditions upon Elizabethan Acting | [127] |
| IV. | Acting and the Elizabethan View of Human Behavior | [137] |
| | a) Decorum | [139] |
| | b) Motivation | [142] |
| | c) Passion | [143] |
| V. | The Effect of the Globe Plays upon the Acting | [146] |
| Five: THE STAGING | [157] |
| I. | Stage Illusion at the Globe Playhouse | [157] |
| II. | Stage Grouping at the Globe Playhouse | [169] |
| III. | Actors’ Entrances upon the Globe Stage | [176] |
| IV. | Recurrent Patterns of Staging | [182] |
| V. | The Staging of the Finales | [207] |
| Six: THE STYLE | [214] |
| Appendix A | [217] |
| Appendix B | [220] |
| Appendix C | [226] |
| Notes | [232] |
| Index to the Globe Plays | [245] |
| General Index | [248] |