New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2017. This book takes an in-depth look at the conditions and experience of theater goers in the early modern period. Using quantitative and qualitative data, Akihiro Yamada carefully studies the intersection of drama and book-publishing, not only to show the breadth of the audience, but also the of the interaction of readers, playwrights, stationers with that audience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.