Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Shakespeare Association: The Seventeenth Century Accounts of the Masters of the Revels
Up to number 11 these are written on very large folio sheets, No. 12 is little more than half size, and is not so complete. Someone, probably the Auditor, has written against it on the first page, 'the names of the plaies wold be expressed, ' and against the last page, 'the parcells were wount to be more particularly ex pressed.' That set of eleven account books give us much information regarding the development of the Court Drama. The advance in the Dramatists, the Plays, the Properties go on together. In the first book John Carow's 'properties' shew traces of some old 'miracle play' in his entry. 'bodyes of men in timber; Dishes for Devil's eyes, Hell and Hell mouth.'
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