The evolution of the English drama up to Shakespeare
Subtitle: with a history of the first Blackfriars Theatre; a survey based upon original records now for the first time collected and published.
Publisher: Kennikat Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Port Washington, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Blackfriars Theatre (London, England); Theater -- England -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.; Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.; English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Reprint of the 1912 ed.
Table of contents: title: Nature and scope of the new materials -- The realistic view of the drama : dependence on the physical -- New times, new environment, new drama -- The Chapel Royal the cradle of new drama -- The Chapel Royal dramatists the first laureates -- The first masters of the chapel and their dramatic prelusions -- The new drama shaped by William Cornish -- Cornish’s successors : The new drama continued by John Heywood -- Concurrent development of native and humanistic drama -- Court hybridization of the drama and other Marian changes -- Elizabethan Restoration of the native drama -- Development of men companies through court influence -- Reaction of companies and auditors upon drama -- Development of the permanent theater -- Establishment of the first Blackfriars Theatre -- Identification of the building and theatre -- The Blackfriars becomes a regular theatre -- Storm and stress -- John Lyly acquires the Blackfriars Theatre -- Dramatic form attained at the Blackfriars -- The aftermath : Lyly’s sale to Shakespeare’s fencing master -- Shakespeare’s Blackfriars identified with Burbage’s theatre not with Farrant’s -- Table of plays and masques before Queen Elizabeth, 1558-1585 -- Payment for plays at court 1558-1585.