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What Is a Playhouse?: England at Play, 1520-1620

What Is a Playhouse?: England at Play, 1520-1620

Davies, Callan

Paperback

Literary CriticismTheater HistoryShakespeare

ISBN10: 1032138076
ISBN13: 9781032138077
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 5 2022
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses.

It builds on recent scholarship and new documentary and archaeological discoveries to answer the questions: what did playhouses do, what did they look like, and how did they function? The book will accordingly introduce readers to a rich and exciting spectrum of play and playhouses, not only in London but also around England. The detailed but wide-ranging case studies examined here go beyond staged drama to explore early modern sport, gambling, music, drinking, and animal baiting; they recover the crucial influence of female playhouse owners and managers; and they recognise rich provincial performance cultures as well as the burgeoning of London's theatre industry.

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