Introduction
Part One: The Theory of Audience
1. ‘Who are we talking about when we talk about the audience?’, by Stephen Purcell
2. ‘Theatrical convention and audience response in early modern drama’, by Jeremy Lopez
3. ‘Early modern audience response’, by Charles Whitney
4. ‘The stage and the audience’, by Susan Bennett
5. ‘The contemporary performer and audience relationship’, by Robert Shaughnessy
6. ‘Audience emotion’, by Penelope Woods
7. ‘The young audience’, by Mathew Reason
Part Two: The role of the audience
8. Hamlet
9. The Tempest
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream
11. Richard III
12. Macbeth
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index