Book contents
- Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
- Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Players
- Part II Playgoers
- Part III Playhouses
- Chapter 9 ‘Theatre’ and ‘Play+House’: Naming Spaces in the Time of Shakespeare
- Chapter 10 ‘[T]hough Ram Alley Stinks with Cooks and Ale / Yet Say There’s Many a Worthy Lawyer’s Chamber / Butts upon Ram Alley’: An Innsman Goes to the Playhouse
- Chapter 11 Playing with the Audience in Othello
- Chapter 12 ‘All Their Minds Transfigured So Together’: The Imagination at the Elizabethan Playhouse
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 9 - ‘Theatre’ and ‘Play+House’: Naming Spaces in the Time of Shakespeare
from Part III - Playhouses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2022
Book contents
- Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
- Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Players
- Part II Playgoers
- Part III Playhouses
- Chapter 9 ‘Theatre’ and ‘Play+House’: Naming Spaces in the Time of Shakespeare
- Chapter 10 ‘[T]hough Ram Alley Stinks with Cooks and Ale / Yet Say There’s Many a Worthy Lawyer’s Chamber / Butts upon Ram Alley’: An Innsman Goes to the Playhouse
- Chapter 11 Playing with the Audience in Othello
- Chapter 12 ‘All Their Minds Transfigured So Together’: The Imagination at the Elizabethan Playhouse
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The chapter first considers the potential effects generated for audiences who saw Robert Greene’s Alphonsus, before turning to the evidence of Henslowe’s Diary which indicates that the Admiral’s Men frequently performed a play by the name of ‘Mahamet’ before Tamburlaine, thereby encouraging audiences to see Tamburlaine after an imitator, rather than before. The chapter concludes by arguing that the early modern repertory system not only enabled but encouraged achronological playgoing in ways that challenge the standard tenets of theatre history.
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- Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern EnglandActor, Audience and Performance, pp. 186 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022