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Shakespeare and the Stage / With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes cover

Shakespeare and the Stage / With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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A historical and practical study of dramatic performance and stagecraft that traces how medieval religious spectacles gave way to secular comedy and tragedy, examines inn-yard presentations and purpose-built playhouses, and surveys company organization, acting practice, court performances, and theatrical allusions. The work describes theatre architecture, audience arrangements, production practices, and contemporary documents and illustrations, and concludes with an alphabetically arranged glossary of stage terms associated with Shakespeare, each entry supplied with explanatory notes to clarify period usage and theatrical meaning.


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Interior of the Swan Theatre Frontispiece
  Facing page
A Stage Play in Progress at an Inn-yard 12
A Typical Inn-yard in Elizabethan Times, used by the Players 12
The Swan Theatre. From Visscher’s Map of London, 1616 81
The Plot of England’s Joy 86
The Rose Theatre or the First Globe Theatre 87
Frontispiece to James Howell’s Londinopolis, 1657, showing the position of four London Theatres, circa 1600 96
The Second Fortune Theatre, 1621 113
The Red Bull Theatre 117
Facsimile of an Admission Ticket to the Roman Coliseum 120
Ticket of Admission to the Red Bull Theatre 120
The Second Globe Theatre, 1614, and the Hope 121
The Palace of Whitehall 206
Banqueting Hall and Holbein Gate, Whitehall Tiltyard in foreground 206
Greenwich Palace in the time of Elizabeth 216
Interior of the Middle Temple Hall 227
Interior of the Old Inner Temple Hall 228
Facsimile of Passage in Manningham’s Diary, referring to Twelfth Night 228
Interior of Gray’s Inn Hall 231
Jocasta: A Tragedie written in Greek by Euripides 232
Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies 233