Discoveries on the early modern stage: contexts and conventions

This study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif and thematic trope on the early modern stage considers an important and popular performance convention in its cultural and religious contexts.

Through close examination of a number of 'discoveries' taken from a wide range of early modern plays, Leslie Thomson traverses several related disciplines, including theatre history, literary analysis, art history and the history of the religious practices that would have influenced Shakespeare and his contemporaries.