Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567–1642 rigorously explores the manner in which light functioned in early modern English playhouses and makes that information available to a readership that does not require specialist knowledge in either Renaissance theatre history or lighting technology to understand the text's contribution to both. Tracking down all of the historically relevant data available, Graves opens up a subject that has long been dominated by assumptions and conjecture. He develops as thorough a picture as possible of how light served both the theatres and the drama of the period.