Introduction: Early Modern Theatre History: where we are now, how we got here, where we go next, William Ingram
Section A: Theatre Companies
1. Adult Playing Companies to 1583, W.R. Streitberger
2. Adult Playing Companies, 1583 to 1593, Sally-Beth MacLean
3. Adult Playing Companies, 1593 to 1603, Roslyn Knutson
4. Adult Playing Companies 1603 to 1613, Tom Rutter
5. Adult Playing Companies 1613 to 1625, James Marino
6. Adult playing companies 1625 to 1642, Martin Butler
7. Early (pre-1590) Boy Companies & their Acting Venues, Michael Shapiro
8. The boy companies 1599-1613, Mary Bly
Section B: London Playhouses
9. Inn-yard Playhouses, David Kathman
10. The Theatre in Shoreditch, 1576-1599, Gabriel Egan
11. Why the Globe is Famous, Andrew Gurr
12. The Most Convenient Place: The Second Blackfriars Theatre and Its Appeal, Ralph Alan Cohen
13. The Red Bull Playhouse, Mark Bayer
14. The Phoenix and the Cockpit-in-Court Playhouses, Frances Teague
Section C: Other Playing Spaces
15. 'He who pays the piper calls the tune': Household Entertainments, Suzanne Westfall
16. The Universities and the Inns of Court, Alan H. Nelson
17. Touring, Peter Greenfield
18. Court theatre, . John H. Astington
19. London Street Theatre, Anne Lancashire
Section D: Social Practices
20. Not Just Sir Oliver Owlet: From Patrons to 'Patronage' of Early Modern Theatre, Alan Somerset
21. The Court, The Master of the Revels and The Players, Richard Dutton
22. Theatre Entrepreneurs and Theatrical Economics, Susan Cerasano
23. The City of London and the Theatre, Ian W. Archer
24. Players, Livery Companies, and Apprentices, David Kathman
25. Materiality and the Market: the case of the Lady Elizabeth's Men. The Lady Elizabeth's Men and the challenge of theatre history, Kathleen E. McLuskie
26. 'For the author's credit': Issues of Authorship in English Renaissance Drama, Heather Hirschfeld
27. Women in the Theatre, Natasha Korda
Section E: Evidence of Theatrical Practices
28. Early Modern Naturalistic Acting: The Role of the Globe in the Development of Personation, Jacalyn Royce
29. Actors' Parts, Tiffany Stern
30. Stage Directions and the Theatre Historian, Alan C. Dessen
31. Lighting, R. B. Graves
32. Music and sound, Lucy Munro
33. Properties, Andrew Sofer
34. Eyewitnesses to History: Visual Evidence for Theatre in Early Modern England, Thomas Postlewait
35. Christopher Beeston, His Property and Properties, Eva Griffith
Composite Bibliography Index
Overview
There was no single 'Elizabethan stage'. Early modern actors exploited various opportunities for patronage and profit between the 1570s and 1642, whether touring, or performing at inns, in country houses, in purpose-built theatres, at court, at the universities, or at the inns of court. This authoritative and comprehensive collection of new essays explores the social, political, and economic pressures under which the playing companies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries operated. It shows how they evolved over...