Moving Shakespeare Indoors
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Moving Shakespeare Indoors

Performance and Repertoire in the Jacobean Playhouse

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Moving Shakespeare Indoors

Performance and Repertoire in the Jacobean Playhouse

About this book

Shakespeare's company, the King's Men, played at the Globe, and also in an indoor theatre, the Blackfriars. The year 2014 witnessed the opening of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, based on seventeenth-century designs of an indoor London theatre and built within the precincts of the current Globe on Bankside. This volume, edited by Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper, asks what prompted the move to indoor theatres, and considers the effects that more intimate staging, lighting and music had on performance and repertory. It discusses what knowledge is required when attempting to build an archetype of such a theatre, and looks at the effects of the theatre on audience behaviour and reception. Exploring the ways in which indoor theatre shaped the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the late Jacobean and early Caroline periods, this book will find a substantial readership among scholars of Shakespeare and Jacobean theatre history.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Figures and plates
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Part I The context of hard evidence
  11. Chapter 1 Why the theatres changed
  12. Chapter 2 Practical evidence for a reimagined indoor Jacobean theatre
  13. Chapter 3 Documentary evidence for an indoor Jacobean theatre
  14. Chapter 4 Continuities and innovations in staging
  15. Part II Materiality indoors
  16. Chapter 5 ‘A ruinous monastery’: the Second Blackfriars Playhouse as a place of nostalgia
  17. Chapter 6 ‘When torchlight made an artificial noon’: light and darkness in the indoor Jacobean theatre
  18. Chapter 7 Acoustic and visual practices indoors
  19. chapter 8 The audience of the indoor theatre
  20. Chapter 9 In the event of fire
  21. Chapter 10 To glisten in a playhouse: cosmetic beauty indoors
  22. Part III The new fashions for indoors
  23. Chapter 11 The new fashion for indoor plays
  24. Chapter 12 Changing fashions: tragicomedy, romance and heroic women in the 1630s hall-playhouses
  25. Chapter 13 Reviving the legacy of indoor performance
  26. Appendix: list of plays performed at indoor playhouses, 1575–1642
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index