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Most plays of Shakespeare are flushed with dramatic embellishing devices, such as music, dance, masque, pageant, ghost, apparition, dumb-show, clowning, jesting, etc., not only his romantic plays or comedies but also his tragedies and histories. Are these inessential ancillaries to the plays? Do they devalue the plays’ purported objectives, or do they enhance their desired impact on the audience? Are they mere diversions to calm down the unruly moronic groundlings? These and such many other questions hover over Shakespeare’s plays.This book is an endeavour to answer some of these knotty questions.