iii. Summary of Court Performances, 1590–1642
The total number of plays presented at Court is calculated from the lists appearing in E. K. Chambers,The Elizabethan Stageand Mary Steele,Plays and Masques at Court. The investigation of the circumstances under which the plays received their first presentations employed a wide variety of primary and secondary sources. It is beyond the scope of this book to give the evidence for each conclusion.