Contents: Introduction; Part I Records: St John¿s College register of inventories (1548-9), Trinity College Inventory (1550), Alan H. Nelson; Cordwainers¿ and shoemakers¿ accounts (1549-50), Smiths¿, cutlers¿, and plumbers¿ accounts (1560-61), Bowyers¿, fletchers¿, coopers¿, and stringers¿ accounts (1571), Painters¿, glaziers¿, embroiderers¿, and stationers¿ accounts (1571), Elizabeth Baldwin, Lawrence M. Clopper and David Mills; Cappers¿ records (1540), Drapers¿ accounts (1563), Smiths¿ accounts (1584), R.W. Ingram; Corporation chamberlains¿ accounts (1573-4) (Elizabeth¿s visit), Willis¿ description of a play at Gloucester (1570s), Audrey Douglas and Peter Greenfield; Chamberlains¿ accounts (New Romney, 1483-6 and 1560-61), James M. Gibson; Grocers¿ Guild records (1564-5), David Galloway; Mercers¿ pageant documents (1433) (indenture), Mercers¿ pageant documents (1461) (expenses), Alexandra F. Johnston and Margaret Rogerson; Of perspective, Sebastiano Serlio; Third dialogue, Leoni di Somi. Part II Pageant Vehicle Staging: The York Mercers and their pageant of Doomsday, 1433-1526, Alexandra F.

Johnston and Margaret (Dorrell) Rogerson; The development of the York Mercers¿ pageant waggon, Peter Meredith; The manner of these playes, John Marshall; The Coventry pageant waggon, Reg Ingram. Part III Other Forms of Staging: Criteria for a popular repertory, David Bevington; La festa d¿Elx: the Festival of the Assumption of the Virgin, Elche (Alicante), Pamela M. King and Asunción Salvador-Rabaza; Drama and the city: city parades, Katie Normington; Moving encounters: choreographing stage and spectators in urban theatre and pageantry, Tom Pettitt. Part IV Costume, Mask and Stage Effects: Apparell comlye, Meg Twycross; Gunnepowdyr, fyre and thondyr, Philip Butterworth; Mystery plays, Meg Twycross and Sarah Carpenter; Magic through sound: illusion, deception and agreed pretence, Philip Butterworth. Part V Playing: ¿Look at.