RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Swift has to identify workmen and claimants aplenty. He is at his considerable best tracing these individuals back to the structures of the trade companies to which so many belonged ... Compared with the mountain of legal material that Swift has waded through and often newly transcribed, the performance records are thin indeed ... Daniel Swift’s deftly written, engaging rescue of this playhouse from comparative obscurity (except for early modern theatre historians) will deservedly be read by many who love theatre, but don’t know about the Theatre.
