The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 2

Chapter 3: NOTE ON SYMBOLS

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About This Book

This volume presents a comprehensive survey of theatrical companies, actors, and playhouses active in late Tudor and early Stuart England. It chronicles the origins, organization, patrons, touring practices, and repertories of boy and adult companies, and traces English troupes' travels at home and abroad. It reconstructs the public and private playhouses, describing their architecture, staging, and business practices, and examines legal, financial, and archival sources that document performances. Detailed bibliographical notes, company lists, and case studies illuminate the social, institutional, and material conditions shaping dramatic performance.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Domus Capitularis S^ti Pauli a Meridie Prospectus. By Wenceslaus Hollar. From Sir William Dugdale, History of St. Paul’s Cathedral (1658)	Frontispiece
Diagrams of the Blackfriars Theatres	p. 504
Interior of the Swan Theatre. From the drawing after Johannes de Witt in Arend van Buchell’s commonplace book	p. 521

NOTE ON SYMBOLS

I have found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol < following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than that named, and the symbol > followed by a date, to indicate an uncertain date not later than that named. Thus 1903 < > 23 would indicate the composition date of any part of this book. I have sometimes placed the date of a play in italics, where it was desirable to indicate the date of production rather than publication.