Shakespeare's Theatre, A History by Dutton, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Boxes Preface Introduction

Palamon and Arcite was Performed with the Queen Herself Present on the Stage The Upstart Crow

1 The Early Years

Stratford and Staging Practices Princely Pleasures at Kenilworth Mystery Cycles and Trade Guilds Competing Authorities Straws in the Wind A System of Protection and Control

2 Possible Beginnings

Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men’s Theory Tarlton Shakespeare and Alexander Hoghton’s Will

3 Shakespeare on the Record and the Stages of 1594

Plague Duopoly Shakespeare in the Records Four Playing Places The Theatre Burbage Motley The Cross Keys Inn Greenwich Palace Gray’s Inn

4 The Chamberlain’s / King’s Men and their Organization

Sharers Hired Men (and Women) Hired Men as Actors Gatherers Tirewomen Tiremen Musicians Book‐keepers Stage‐keepers Apprentices Conclusions

5 A Stormy Passage, from the Theatre, via the Curtain, to the Globe

2 The Seven Deadly Sins The Stories Commentary “Those Playhouses … Shall be Plucked Down”

6 “The Great Globe Itself”

The Galleries Lords’ Rooms Stage Directions Playhouse of the Spoken Word Robert Armin The War of the Theatres

7 A New Reign

A Royal Master Little Eyases and The Malcontent

8 The Blackfriars

“Your Master’s Worship House, here, in the Friars” The New Repertoire Descent Machinery Jonson and Shakespeare in the New House

Appendix Chamberlain’s/King’s Men’s Plays 1594–1614, Other than by Shakespeare

Bibliography

Primary Material from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Secondary Material

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