Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Mass as Performance Text -- 2. From Mappa Mundi to Theatrum Mundi: The World as Stage in Early English Drama -- 3. Asleep Onstage -- 4. Acting Mary: The Emotional Realism of the Mature Virgin in the N-Town Plays -- 5. The Performance of Some Wakefield Master Plays on the University of Illinois Campus -- 6. The Problem with Mrs. Noah: The Search for Performance Credibility in the Chester Noah's Flood Play -- 7. The Theaters of Everyman -- 8. "My Name is Worship": Masquerading Vice in Medwall's Nature -- 9. Plays, Players, and Playwrights in Renaissance Oxford -- 10. English Chronicle Contexts for Shakespeare's Death of Richard II -- 11. Family by Death: Stage Images in Titus Andronicus and The Winter's Tale -- 12. Bearing "A Wary Eye": Ludic Vengeance and Doubtful Suicide in Hamlet -- Contributors -- Index.