Screen LibraryThe Development of Shakespeare's theater
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AMS Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, N.Y. |
| Publication Dates: | c1992. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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AMS studies in the Renaissance ; no. 24 |
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| Carrier Form: | 208 p.: ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0404622941 (alk. paper) 9780404622947 (alk. paper) 0404622933 9780404622930 |
| Index Number: | J805 |
| CLC: |
J805.561 J809.561 |
| Call Number: | J809.561/D489 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. The "evolution" of the Elizabethan playing company / William Ingram -- St. Paul's Grammar School before 1580 : theatrical development suppressed? / Anne Lancashire -- Hall screens and Elizabethan playhouses : counter-evidence from Cambridge / Alan H. Nelson -- The players and playing places of Norwich / Donald F. Rowan -- The roof of the Globe / John Orrell -- The stage superstructures of the first Globe and the Swan / Richard Hosley -- The Rose and the Swan / Scott McMillin -- Thomas Nabbes's Covent Garden (1638) and Inigo Jones's drawings for the Phoenix or Cockpit in Drury Lane / T.J. Kin The remarkable flowering of the English Renaissance theater began in the late 158Os, but it was preceded by a long period which saw the founding of an acting profession and the building of permanent playhouses. The establishment and development of theatrical culture--actors, stages, and theater buildings--so crucial to the emergence of mature drama, form the subject of this book. The nine contributors address various aspects of the history of the Tudor and Stuart stage, particularly in the light of recent research, and from new scholarly perspectives. The subjects covered include the surviva |