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Inside Shakespeare : essays on the Blackfriars stage

Addresses questions peculiar to the Blackfriars and indoor playing: did the Blackfriars have its own repertory? What was the place of the Blackfriars in the urban economy? What qualities did the Blackfriars share with the long tradition of great-hall performances? This work spans a range of approaches from performative to historical to textual.
Print Book, English, 2014
Susquehanna University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, Selinsgrove, Lanham, Md., 2014
History
244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781575910772, 1575910772
1114804222
Introduction : Shakespeare inside and out / Paul Menzer and Ralph Alan Cohen
London's Blackfriars Playhouse and the Chamberlain's men / Andrew Gurr
Taking part : actors and audience on the stage at Blackfriars / Tiffany Stern
What if there wasn't a "Blackfriars repertory"? / Roslyn Knutson
Who's in, who's out? : The knight of the burning pestle on the Blackfriars stage / Leslie Thomson
"Beware at what hands thou receiv'st thy commodity" : The alchemist and the King's Men fleece the customers, 1610 / Melissa D. Aaron
The Blackfriars on tour : provincial analogies / Alan Somerset
Professional players in Stratford-on-Avon, 1587-1602 / Elza C. Tiner
The queen's "unfledged minions" : an alternate account of the origins of Blackfriars and of the boy company phenomenon / Jeanne H. McCarthy
The Westminister scholars' Sapientia Solomonis as royal gift offering / Michael Shapiro
Blacking-up at the Blackfriars Theatre / Virginia Mason Vaughan
The Blackfriars gladiators : masters of fence, playing a prize, and the Elizabethan and Stuart theatre / Ian Borden
"What is become of Bushy? Where is Green?" : metadramatic reference to doubling actors in Richard II / Alan Armstrong
Smelling their way to Dover : a blind director's take on Blind Gloucester / David Richman
From willow cabin to dark house : Twelfth night and the poetics of indoor spaces / Walter W. Cannon
Changeable taffeta : re-dressing the bears in Twelfth night / John R. Ford
Hamlet's pockets : problems with stage directions / William Proctor Williams
A joke and a crux in Hamlet Q2 / Albert Braunmuller
The single performance of Hamlet that changed theater history / Barry Gaines
A discourse on the witty partition of A midsummer night's dream / Stephen Booth
Originally published: 2006