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Playgoing in Shakespeare's London
- Title
- Playgoing in Shakespeare's London / Andrew Gurr.
- Author
- Gurr, Andrew.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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- Description
- xviii, 307 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This is a new edition of Andrew Gurr's classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles all the evidence from the writings of the time to describe the physical structure of the different types of playhouse, the services provided in the auditorium, the cost of a ticket and a cushion, the size of the crowds, the smells, the pickpockets, and the collective feelings generated by the plays.
- Since 1987 there have been many new discoveries about Shakespeare's theatres. Gurr introduces fresh evidence about the experience of being at a play in Shakespeare's time, adds more than thirty new entries to his account of the early playgoers and provides a select bibliography.
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Theater > London > History > 16th century
- Theater > London > History > 17th century
- Theater audiences > London > History > 16th century
- Theater audiences > London > History > 17th century
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
- English drama > 17th century > History and criticism
- London (England) > Social life and customs
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-293) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Physical conditions. a. The amphitheatre playhouses. b. The hall playhouses. c. Performing conditions. d. Auditorium behaviour -- 3. Social composition. a. Social classes in England. b. Social classes in London. c. Who went where. d. Different kinds of playgoer -- 4. Mental composition. a. The mental range. b. Audiences or spectators. c. Learned ears. d. Levels of awareness. e. Playgoer reactions -- 5. The evolution of tastes. a. The first paying playgoers, 1567-87. b. Tarlton's followers 1576-88. c. Lyly's special appeal, 1580-9. d. Mass emotion and the Armada, 1588-99. e. Rule, religion and revenge, 1588-99. f. Current affairs, 1588-99. g. Citizen staples and Juliet's rebellion, 1588-1605. h. The war of railing, 1599-1609. i. City comedy, 1599-1614. j. 1609 and the settled hierarchy. k. Beeston's Cock and Bull, 1616-30. l. The Blackfriars in the 1630s. m. Citizens in the last years, 1630-42.
- Appendix 1. Playgoers 1567-1642 -- Appendix 2. References to playgoing.
- ISBN
- 0521580145 (hardcover)
- 0521574498 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 96013185
- OCLC
- 34471924
- ocm34471924
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries