A fresh and thoroughly revised edition of this most entertaining and authoritative overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time.

The Admiral's Men is the acting company that staged Christopher Marlowe's plays while its companion company was giving the first performances of Shakespeare. Unlike the Shakespeare company, there is plenty of evidence available telling us what the Admiral's company did and how it staged its plays. Not only do we know far more about the design of its two playhouses, the Rose and the Fortune, than we know of any other playhouse from the time, including the Globe, but we have Henslowe's Diary. This recorded everything the Admiral's company performed from 1594 to 1600 and after, what the company...

The first complete history of the theatre company in which Shakespeare acted and which staged all of his plays.

This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.

Andrew Gurr's work offers the best access to the original Shakespearean theatre. This is a selection of his key essays.