On the playbill in Old London
By: by Lynette Feasey
Contributors: Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616; Chapman, George, 1559?-1634; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637; Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: G. G. Harrap
Published: 1948
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: English drama; Theater; History
Notes: Adaptations of Elizabethan plays, with notes on their production.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the playhouses of Old London.; title: At the playhouse: a burlesque comedy of the London stage from The knight of the burning pestle, by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.; title: Doctor Faustus: a tragic morality play from The tragical history of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe.; title: Eastward ho! A comedy of London life, by George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston.; title: Katharine of Aragon: a historical episode from The life of Henry the Eighth, by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.; title: The masque of Christmas: a Christmas entertainment, by Ben Johson.