Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries and interprets features of page display (particularly special characters, scene division, punctuation, and illustration) as a means of communicating and expressing aspects of dramatic performance to readers. This capacious, thoughtful work allows readers to conceive of the possibilities of new scholarship in the history of early modern English playbooks. Because Bourne regards the members of the early English book trade with grace, she releases them from the burden of habitual faultiness. She initiates a truly fantastic way of approaching playbooks that prioritizes 'readerly access to these forms of theatricality rather than foreclosing the chance to experience their effects'.