Theatre of Fire
Theatre of Fire
Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre
Butterworth, Dr Philip
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
04/2026
304
Dura
Inglês
9781350565432
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List of Illustrations
Foreword to the First Edition by Glynne Wickham
Foreword to the Revised Edition by Peter Meredith (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Drama, University of Leeds, UK)
Prefatory Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Principal Effects and their Providers
Chapter 2 - Fireworks, Wildmen and Flaming Devils
Chapter 3 - Fireworks as Light, Sound, Smoke and Heat
Chapter 4 - Flame as Light
Chapter 5 - Hell Mouth and the Dragon
Chapter 6 - Royal Firework Theatre: A Postlude
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix 1 - Eye-witness Accounts
Appendix 2 - Firework Accounts
Appendix 3A - John Hester's Stock List
Appendix 3B - The Grocers' Company-Tariff of Charges 1453
Appendix 4 - Recipes from Babington
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Foreword to the First Edition by Glynne Wickham
Foreword to the Revised Edition by Peter Meredith (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Drama, University of Leeds, UK)
Prefatory Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Principal Effects and their Providers
Chapter 2 - Fireworks, Wildmen and Flaming Devils
Chapter 3 - Fireworks as Light, Sound, Smoke and Heat
Chapter 4 - Flame as Light
Chapter 5 - Hell Mouth and the Dragon
Chapter 6 - Royal Firework Theatre: A Postlude
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix 1 - Eye-witness Accounts
Appendix 2 - Firework Accounts
Appendix 3A - John Hester's Stock List
Appendix 3B - The Grocers' Company-Tariff of Charges 1453
Appendix 4 - Recipes from Babington
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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Early modern theatre; renaissance drama; Elizabethan drama; medieval drama; celebrations; pyrotechnics; fireworks; gunpowder; artillery; flame as light; scenography; theatrical production; history of special effects
List of Illustrations
Foreword to the First Edition by Glynne Wickham
Foreword to the Revised Edition by Peter Meredith (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Drama, University of Leeds, UK)
Prefatory Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Principal Effects and their Providers
Chapter 2 - Fireworks, Wildmen and Flaming Devils
Chapter 3 - Fireworks as Light, Sound, Smoke and Heat
Chapter 4 - Flame as Light
Chapter 5 - Hell Mouth and the Dragon
Chapter 6 - Royal Firework Theatre: A Postlude
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix 1 - Eye-witness Accounts
Appendix 2 - Firework Accounts
Appendix 3A - John Hester's Stock List
Appendix 3B - The Grocers' Company-Tariff of Charges 1453
Appendix 4 - Recipes from Babington
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Foreword to the First Edition by Glynne Wickham
Foreword to the Revised Edition by Peter Meredith (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Drama, University of Leeds, UK)
Prefatory Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Principal Effects and their Providers
Chapter 2 - Fireworks, Wildmen and Flaming Devils
Chapter 3 - Fireworks as Light, Sound, Smoke and Heat
Chapter 4 - Flame as Light
Chapter 5 - Hell Mouth and the Dragon
Chapter 6 - Royal Firework Theatre: A Postlude
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix 1 - Eye-witness Accounts
Appendix 2 - Firework Accounts
Appendix 3A - John Hester's Stock List
Appendix 3B - The Grocers' Company-Tariff of Charges 1453
Appendix 4 - Recipes from Babington
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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