What is the relation between the language being heard and the picture being simultaneously exhibited on the stage? Typically there is an identity between sound and sight, but often there is a divergence between what the audience hears and what is sees. These divergences are 'insets' and examines the motives, mechanics and poetic qualities of these narrative poems embedded in the plays.

FRANCIS BERRY

Chapter I Introductory; Chapter II Narrative and Dramatic; Chapter III Kyd and the Inset; Chapter IV The Expository Inset; Chapter V The Interior Plot-required Inset; Chapter VI The Voluntary Inset; Chapter VII The Song Inset; Chapter VIII The Insets of Hamlet; Chapter IX Word and Picture in the Final Plays; Chapter X Epilogue;