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In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. Most of the best plays written after 1610, including Shakespeare s late plays such as "The Tempest, "were written for the new breed of private playhouses small, roofed and designed for an aristocratic, literary audience, as opposed to the larger, open-air houses such as the Globe and the Red Bull, catering for a popular, lowbrow audience. The author discusses the polarisation of taste and the effect it had on literary criticism and theatre history. This title will be of...