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Introduction -- Part 1. Setting the scene: playwrights and localities. Chapter 1.1. The backdrop of regional theatre to Tang Xianzu's drama / Yongming Xu; Chapter 1.2. Stratford-upon-Avon: 1616 / Paul Edmondson -- Part 2. Classics, tastes and popularity. Chapter 2.1. The 'popular turn' in the elite theatre of the Ming after Tang Xianzu: Love, dream and deaths in The Tale of the West Loft / Wei Hua; Chapter 2.2. Blockbusters and popular stories / Nick Walton -- Part 3. Making history. Chapter 3.1. Shishiju as public forum: The Crying Phoenix and the dramatization of contemporary political affairs in late Ming China / Ayling Wang; Chapter 3.2. Dramatizing the Tudors / Helen Cooper -- Part 4. The state and the theatre. Chapter 4.1. Sixty plays from the Ming Palace, 1615-18 / Tian Yuan Tan; Chapter 4.2. Licensing the King's Men: From court revels to public performance / Janet Clare -- Part 5. The circulation of dramatic texts and printing. Chapter 5.1. Tired, sick, and looking for money: Zang Maoxun in 1616 / Stephen H. West; Chapter 5.2. Status anxiety: Arguing about plays and print in early modern London / Jason Scott-Warren -- Part 6. Dramatic authorship and collaboration. Chapter 6.1. Is there a playwright in this text? The 1610s and the consolidation of dramatic authorship in late Ming print culture / Patricia Sieber; Chapter 6.2. 'May I subscribe a name?': Terms of collaboration in 1616 / Peter Kirwan -- Part 7. Audiences, critics and reception. Chapter 7.1. Revising Peony Pavilion: Audience reception in presenting Tang Xianzu's text / Shih-Pe Wang; Chapter 7.2. 'No epilogue, I pray you': Audience reception in Shakespearean theatre / Anjna Chouhan -- Part 8. Music and performance. Chapter 8.1. Seeking the relics of music and performance: An investigation of Chinese theatrical scenes published in the early seventeenth century (1606-16) / Mei Sun; Chapter 8.2. Music in the English theatre of 1616 / David Lindley -- Part 9. Theatre in theory and practice. Cha