17th Century
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Back Shutters
Banqueting House
Bartholomew Fair
Blackfriars Audience
Blackfriars playhouse
Boy Actress
Broken Heart
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Chief Masquer
Coelum Britannicum
Drama
early modern performance
English Renaissance drama
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Inigo Jones's Design
Jacobean
Jacobean Private Theatre
Jacobean stage repertory analysis
King's Masque
King's Men
King's Revels
Lady Elizabeth's Men
literary criticism history
Lord Chamberlain's Company
Plays
Private
Private Playhouse
Private Theatre
Public Playhouse
Queen Anne's Men
Renaissance
Richard III
Salisbury Court
Salmacida Spolia
Shakespeare
theatre architecture history
Tiring House Facade
Ursula's Booth
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138236530
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. Most of the best plays written after 1610, including Shakespeare’s late plays such as The Tempest, were written for the new breed of private playhouses – small, roofed and designed for an aristocratic, literary audience, as opposed to the larger, open-air houses such as the Globe and the Red Bull, catering for a popular, ‘lowbrow’ audience. The author discusses the polarisation of taste and the effect it had on literary criticism and theatre history. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
