The Elizabethan playhouse and other studies.
By: by W.J. Lawrence
Contributors: Shakespeare Head Press,
Publisher: Shakespeare Head Press
Published: 1913
Place of publication: Stratford-upon-Avon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625; Theater -- Great Britain -- History; Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery; Theaters -- Great Britain
Table of contents: value: Light and darkness in the Elizabethan theatre.; value: Windows on the pre-restoration stage.; value: The origin of the theatre programme.; value: Early systems of admission.; value: The origin of the English picture-stage.; value: The persistence of Elizabethan conventionalisms.; value: Irish players at Oxford in 1677.; value: Louis XIV's scene painters.; value: A player-friend of Hogarth.; value: Garrick's first appearance as Hamlet.; value: Appendices: I. Amended chronological list of Elizabethan, and quazi-Elizabethan play houses (1576-1663) II. The oldest known English play bills.; value: Bibliography (p. 245-150)