Shakespeare's lost playhouse : eleven days at Newington Butts
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Shakespeare's lost playhouse : eleven days at Newington Butts
(Routledge studies in Shakespeare, 24)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare's career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London, and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career in the theatre, this playhouse has been easy to forget. Yet for eleven days in June, 1594, it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres. Thanks to the ledgers of theatre entrepreneur, Philip Henslowe, we have a record of this short venture. Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse is an exploration of a brief moment in time when the focus of the theatrical world in England was on this small playhouse. To write this history, Laurie Johnson draws on archival studies, archaeology, environmental studies, geography, social, political, and cultural studies as well as methods developed within literary and theatre history to expand the scope of our understanding of the theatres, the rise of the playing business, and the formations of the playing companies.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Problem with Entries
Chapter One: "be-gininge"
Chapter Two: "at newing ton"
Chapter Three: "my Lord Admerelle men & my Lord chamberlen men"
Chapter Four: "b 3 of June 1594"
Chapter Five: "at cutlacke"
Coda: Henslowe Draws a Line
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