The golden age of the English theatre
Judith Cook takes a look at the early English theatre and explores the period between 1580 and 1642. She looks at what it was like to visit one of the theatres such as the Globe or the Rose, what plays were produced, who went to see them, and the status of the players in society.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
9780671712297, 0671712292
32256989
1. The Beginning
2. The New Professionals
3. Growing Up
4. The First Playhouses
5. Henslowe, Marlowe and the Rose
6. The World of Robert Greene
7. The Elizabethan Underworld
8. Deaths and Entrances
9. The Reckoning
10. End of Act One
11. Shakespeare Centre Stage
12. How to Survive in Elizabethan England
13. Trouble with the Law
14. The Wooden O: The Opening of the Globe
15. Death of the Queen
16. The Jacobeans
17. The Roaring Girl
18. William Shakespeare, Resident Dramatist
19. Revenge Plays and City Satires
20. Embarrassment of a Water Poet
21. 'He was not of an age but for all time ... '
22. Master Jonson visits Scotland
23. End of Act Two
24. 'O Rare Ben Jonson ... '
25. Restoration