Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gender Riddles and Fools’ Play in the Italian Renaissance Comedy Gl’Ingannati (1532) / 3 The Accademia degli Alterati and the Invention of a New Form of Dramatic Experience: Myth, Allegory, and Theory in Jacopo Peri’s and Ottavio Rinuccini’s Euridice (1600) / 4 Il favore degli dei (1690): Meta-Opera and Metamorphoses at the Farnese Court / 5 Entertainment for Melancholics: The Public and the Public Stage in Carlo Gozzi’s L’Amore delle tre melarance / 6 Pierre Nicole, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, and the Psychological Experience of Theatrical Performance in Early Modern France / 7 The Catharsis of Prosecution: Royal Violence, Poetic Justice, and Public Emotion in the Russian Hamlet (1748) / 8 The Politics of Tragedy in the Dutch Republic: Joachim Oudaen’s Martyr Drama in Context / 9 Devils On and Off Stage: Shifting Effects of Fear and Laughter in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Urban Theatre / 10 Imagining the Audience in Eighteenth-Century Folk Theatre in Tyrol / 11 Nô within Walls and Beyond: Theatre as Cultural Capital in Edo Japan (1603–1868) / Index…”