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.

At a glance To imagine Shakespeare's plays as they were first performed, one must first imagine the… What it's about The book is a detailed history of the theatres of Elizabethan and… Drawing on contracts, court records, maps, and contemporary accounts, it examines the… It is a work of careful documentary scholarship, assembling scattered evidence into a…

The 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.