Producible interpretation is a critical method used by Milhous and Hume to examine eight plays. For each play they present deductions based upon six kinds of investigation: close reading; analysis of the original cast and reception of the original production; study of the scenery and machines required for performance; historical reading in terms of 17th-century values and views of subject matter; a survey of the play s production history; and analysis of modern critical opinion.The plays they examine in this manner are: "The Country-Wife; All for Love; The Spanish Fryar; Venice Preserv d;...