Philip ButterworthPhilip Butterworth is Visiting Scholar in the School of History, University of Leeds, UK. He is a founder member of the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and formerly Reader in Medieval Theatre and Dean for Resarch at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre (1998), Magic on the Early English Stage (2005), Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre (2014), and Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions: Analysis and Catalogue (2022), among others. Read More Read Less