id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt wh246q20m4h Maryam Meechka Zomorodian 'History Couched in a Play': Performing the Past on the Early Modern Stage 2013 .txt text/plain 169 5 17 I argue that the relationship between the playhouse and historical culture was reciprocal: just as the theater contributed to an awareness and understanding of the past, historical matter helped legitimize theater in early modern England. This dissertation treats the contribution of the public playhouse to the development of early modern historiography and historical culture. cache/wh246q20m4h.txt txt/wh246q20m4h.txt