One reponder sent: Gruber, Willian,. Comic Theaters: Studies in Performance and Audience Response. U of Georgia P, 1986. Smith, Bruce R. Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage 1500- 1700. Princeton UP, 1988. Ruggiers, Paul G. Versions of Medieval Comedy. U of Oklahoma P, 1977. Other Responses: Steggle, Matthew. Wars of the Theatres: The Poetics of Personation in the Age of Jonson. Victoria: English Literary Studies, 1998. (Dr. Matthew Steggle, Lecturer in English, Sheffield Hallam University. Tel: (home) 0115 925 4122 Another response: Salinger, Leo. Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy. Cambridge: UP, 1974. Doran, Madeleine. Endeavors of Art. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1954. Nevo, Ruth. Comic Transformations in Shakespeare. Methuen: 1980. Gum, Colburn. The Aristophanic Comedies of Ben Jonson. Mouton, 1969 Another response: Miola, Robert S. Shakespeare's Rome. New York: Cambridge, 1983.