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21 - The Prehistory of Shakespearean Theater

from Part II - Theater

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Janette Dillon
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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actors and actingApology for ActorsBale, JohnBlackfriars (playhouse)booth stageBoxfordBrecht, BertoltThe Castle of PerseveranceCheapsideChesterCorpus ChristiCourt (playhouse)CoventryCroxton Play of the SacramentDigby Mary MagdalenedisguisingsdoublingDr. FaustusDymock, Sir EdwardEdward VIElizabeth IExeterfestivalFulgens and LucreceGentlemen of the King’s ChapelGolden Arbour pageantHall, EdwardHamletHenry VIIIHeywood, JohnHeywood, ThomasHood, Robinhousehold theaterInterludesJames IThe Jew of MaltaKatherine of AragonKendal CastleKing’s PlayersLambeth Palaceliteracylocus and plateaLord Mayor’s ShowMacbethMankindmansion stagingMarlowe, ChristophermasksThe Merchant of VeniceMidsummer WatchMore, Sir ThomasMorton, CardinalMusitian, Alicemystery cyclesOf Gentleness and Nobilitypageant carsplace-and-scaffoldPlay of Adamplayhousesprofessionalizationproperty player”Rastell, JohnRed Lion (playhouse)ReformationRichard IIroyal entriesSaint GeorgeSalisburystage directionsstage featuresSuffolkTamburlainethe Theatre (playhouse)ThetfordThree LawsTitus AndronicustouringTowneley cycletrestle stageTretise of Miraclis PleyingeWakefieldWestminster PalaceA Woman Killed with KindnessWymondhamYorkYork cycle
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 141 - 148
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Beadle, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clopper, Lawrence M. Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.Google Scholar
Coldewey, John. “That Enterprising Property Player: Semi- professional Drama in Sixteenth-Century England.” Theatre Notebook 31.1 (1977): 5–12.Google Scholar
Cox, John D., and Kastan, David Scott, eds. A New History of Early English Drama. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.Google Scholar
Craik, T. W. The Tudor Interlude. Leicester: Leicester UP, 1958.Google Scholar
Dillon, Janette. The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Happé, Peter. English Drama before Shakespeare. London: Longman, 1999.Google Scholar
Meredith, Peter, and Tailby, John. The Staging of Religious Drama in Europe in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Documents in English Translation. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1983.Google Scholar
Southern, Richard. The Staging of Plays before Shakespeare. London: Faber and Faber, 1973.Google Scholar
Weimann, R. Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theatre: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.Google Scholar
White, Paul Whitfield. Theatre and Reformation: Protestantism, Patronage and Playing in Tudor England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.Google Scholar
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