Shakespearean Playhouses
by Joseph Quincy Adams
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About this eBook
- Author
- Adams, Joseph Quincy, 1881-1946
- Title
- Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Theaters -- England -- London -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 22397
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22397
- Release Date
- August 25, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Shakespearean Playhouses
- 2.A HISTORY OF ENGLISH THEATRES from the BEGINNINGS to the RESTORATION
- 3.By JOSEPH QUINCY ADAMS — Cornell University
- 4.TO LANE COOPER IN GRATITUDE AND ESTEEM
- 5.PREFACE
- 6.CONTENTS
- 7.ILLUSTRATIONS — Shakespearean Playhouses
- 8.CHAPTER I — THE INN-YARDS
- 9.CHAPTER II — THE HOSTILITY OF THE CITY
- 10.CHAPTER III — THE THEATRE
- 11.CHAPTER IV — THE CURTAIN
- 12.CHAPTER V — THE FIRST BLACKFRIARS
- 13.CHAPTER VI — ST. PAUL’S
- 14.CHAPTER VII — THE BANKSIDE AND THE BEAR GARDEN
- 15.CHAPTER VIII — NEWINGTON BUTTS
- 16.CHAPTER IX — THE ROSE
- 17.CHAPTER X — THE SWAN
- 18.CHAPTER XI — THE SECOND BLACKFRIARS
- 19.CHAPTER XII — THE GLOBE
- 20.CHAPTER XIII — THE FORTUNE
- 21.CHAPTER XIV — THE RED BULL
- 22.CHAPTER XV — WHITEFRIARS
- 23.CHAPTER XVI — THE HOPE
- 24.CHAPTER XVII — ROSSETER’S BLACKFRIARS, OR PORTER’S HALL
- 25.CHAPTER XVIII — THE PHŒNIX, OR COCKPIT IN DRURY LANE
- 26.CHAPTER XIX — SALISBURY COURT
- 27.CHAPTER XX — THE COCKPIT-IN-COURT, OR THEATRE ROYAL AT WHITEHALL
- 28.CHAPTER XXI — MISCELLANEOUS — I — Wolf’s Theatre in Nightingale Lane, near East Smithfield — II — The Projected “Amphitheatre” — III — Ogilby’s Dublin Theatre — IV — The French Players’ Temporary Theatre in Drury Lane — V — Davenant’s Projected Theatre in Fleet Street
- 29.BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 30.MAPS AND VIEWS OF LONDON — I — II
- 31.INDEX
- 32.FOOTNOTES
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