| Summary: | <p><span>This essay offers a survey of different performance practices that characterized the European theatre of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with particular attention to the English case in comparison with the Spanish one. The article describes the material and symbolic forces that determined the configuration of the theatre in the early modern period: the production and consumption of works, the framework of cultural references, the models of sponsorship, the ownership of the spaces of representation, the legislation about theatre, the writers’ and actors’ status, the sociological composition of the audiences. The aim is to provide the base knowledge for a comparative history of classical European theatre.</span></p>
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