Review: Butterworth’s Theatre of Fire

Theater of Fire
Philip Butterworth

Review by Monona Rossol

As a safety expert, I fell in love with this book before I finished the introduction. Author Philip Butterworth introduces his subject with a discussion of the difference in safety-consciousness between the Middle Ages and today. This is appropriate if readers are to appreciate the boisterous and hazardous theatrical pyrotechnic experimentation in this historical period. The author surveyed five major renaissance and medieval data bases for information on period pyrotechnics:

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Ref: JPyro, Issue 9, 1999, pp65-67
(J09_65)

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