Contents

Foreword by Gregory Doran

Acknowledgements

Prologue

 

Introduction: Dangerous Times – the New World of Theatre

  1

The New Professionals

  2

The University Wits

  3

A Theatre for the People

  4

Men About Town

  5

Performances, Plays and Politics

  6

The Reckoning

  7

Deaths and Entrances

  8

A Visit to the Playhouse

  9

Curtain Fall on the Elizabethans

10

Jacobean Players and Patrons

11

Roaring Girls

12

Shakespeare and the King’s Men

13

An Insult to Spain

14

Exit Ben Jonson

Notes

Bibliography