Common understandings, poetic confusion: playhouses and playgoers in Elizabethan England

Introduction. There Is Not Agreement of Opinion ; All the World’s a Stage ; Every Like Is Not the Same

1: Playing. Merely Players ; What Learn You By That? ; But Mark This Show

2: Occupatio. An Excellent Good Word Before It Was Ill Sorted ; Looking Well to Borders ; So Curious in New Fangles

3: Understanders. Deep in Understanding ; Plain and Easy to Be Understanden ; All Readers to Be Understanders ; Feelingly Perceive

4: Confusion. Nothing but Confusion and Errors ; Babylonical Confusion ; What More Fitter Occasion? ; Diverse Men of Diverse Minds ; Commons Knowledge – Interlude: Playing, Thinking

5: Supposes. Valedictions to Sense ; Brokers of Another’s Wit ; A Stalking-Stamping Player ; Authors of All the Content

6: Eating. Between Meals ; Some Hungry Scenes ; Playing with Food

7: Non Plus. I’ll Have a Challenge, Too ; Fencers, Bearwards, Common Players ; Non Plus

Trying Conclusions.