Those nut-cracking Elizabethans.--Shakespeare's use of animals.--The Elizabethan private playhouse.--Shakespeare's supers.--The dumb show in Hamlet.--Bearers for the dead.--Bells in Elizabethan drama.--The evolution of the tragic carpet.--Bygone stage furniture and its removers.--Bacon on masques and triumphs.--The wedding of poetry and song.--The secret of the "bad quartos".--Double titles in Elizabethan drama.--Massinger's punctuation and what it reveals
