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12 - Playhouses

from Part II - Theater

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Gabriel Egan
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 89 - 95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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References

Sources cited

Egan, Gabriel. “The Theatre in Shoreditch.” The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre. Ed. Dutton, Richard. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. 168–85, 623–72.Google Scholar
Griffith, Eva. “New Material for a Jacobean Playhouse: The Red Bull Theatre on the Seckford Estate.” Theatre Notebook 55 (2001): 5–23.Google Scholar
Ingram, William. The Business of Playing: The Beginnings of the Adult Professional Theater in Elizabethan England. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.Google Scholar
Thomson, Leslie. “Playgoers on the Outdoor Stages of Early Modern London.” Theatre Notebook 64 (2010): 3–11.Google Scholar

Further reading

Berry, Herbert. “The View of London from the North and the Playhouses in Holywell.” Shakespeare Survey 53 (2000): 196–212.Google Scholar
Egan, Gabriel. “Reconstructions of the Globe: A Retrospective.” Shakespeare Survey 52 (1999): 1–16.Google Scholar
Gurr, Andrew. “The Tempest’s Tempest at Blackfriars.” Shakespeare Survey 41 (1989): 91–102.Google Scholar
Hosley, Richard. “The Discovery-Space in Shakespeare’s Globe.” Shakespeare Survey 12 (1959): 35–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hosley, Richard. “Shakespeare’s Use of a Gallery Over the Stage.” Shakespeare Survey 10 (1957): 77–89.Google Scholar
Hosley, Richard. “Was There a Music-Room in Shakespeare’s Globe?” Shakespeare Survey 13 (1960): 113–23.Google Scholar
Mulryne, J. R., and Shewring, Margaret, eds. Shakespeare’s Globe Rebuilt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Orrell, John. “The Architecture of the Fortune Playhouse.” Shakespeare Survey 47 (1994): 15–27.Google Scholar
Wickham, Glynne, Berry, Herbert, and Ingram, William, eds. “English Professional Theatre, 1530–1660.” Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.Google Scholar

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