Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse: Eleven Days at Newington Butts

ISBN-13: 9780367888831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str.

Laurie Johnson

Opis

The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare’s career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. Yet for eleven days in June, 1594, it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Problem with Entries

Chapter One: "be-gininge"

Chapter Two: "at newing ton"

Chapter Three: "my Lord Admerelle men & my Lord chamberlen men"

Chapter Four: "ƃ 3 of June 1594"

Chapter Five: "at cutlacke"

Coda: Henslowe Draws a Line

O autorze

Laurie Johnson is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Queensland, current President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, and editorial board member with the journal Shakespeare. His publications include The Tain of Hamlet (2013), and edited collections Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Early Modern Body-Mind (with John Sutton and Evelyn Tribble, Routledge, 2014) and Rapt in Secret Studies: Emerging Shakespeares (with Darryl Chalk, 2010).