# Shakespearean Playhouses

> A pioneering history of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres, reconstructing the playhouses where Shakespeare's dramas first came alive, from the Globe to the Fortune and beyond.

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## About
To imagine Shakespeare's plays as they were first performed, one must first imagine the buildings that housed them, and this classic study patiently reconstructs those vanished stages from the records they left behind.What it's aboutThe book is a detailed history of the theatres of Elizabethan and Jacobean London, the playhouses in which the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries was first staged. Drawing on contracts, court records, maps, and contemporary accounts, it examines the great venues one by one, the Theatre, the Curtain, the Rose, the Globe, the Fortune, the Blackfriars, and others, reconstructing their locations, structures, ownership, and histories. It is a work of careful documentary scholarship, assembling scattered evidence into a coherent picture of where and how the plays were performed.ThemesThe book is concerned with the material and institutional life of the theatre, the business, architecture, and physical conditions of playgoing in Shakespeare's London. Understanding the playhouse, it shows, is essential to understanding the plays, whose staging, effects, and very structure were shaped by the spaces they were written for.Why it still mattersThis study laid groundwork for all later scholarship on the Elizabethan stage, and the questions it addresses, how the plays were physically realised, remain central to how we read and revive them. For anyone who has wondered what it was like to stand in the yard of the Globe, it opens a door.Who it's forStudents of Shakespeare, theatre history, and the English Renaissance will find this an authoritative resource. It suits scholars, actors, and any reader eager to picture the world in which the greatest plays in English first came to life.

## Specifications
- language: en
- format: paperback