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134 - Experiences of Performance: Firsthand Accounts of Theater

from Part XIV - Shakespeare’s Early Reception (to 1660)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Andrew Fleck
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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BanksideBear GardenBlackfriars (playhouse)Cockpit (playhouse), Curtain (playhouse)eyewitness accountFortune (playhouse)Globe (playhouse)Hampton CourtHope (playhouse)illustrationsKing’s MenLongleat HouseLord Chamberlain’s MenMiddle TempleperformancePhoenix (playhouse)printing pressRose (playhouse)Speculum BritanniaeSurvey of LondonSwan (playhouse)Theatre (playhouse)
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1009 - 1015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Bourne, Claire M. L. “‘High Designe’: Beaumont and Fletcher Illustrated.” English Literary Renaissance 44.2 (2014): 275–327.Google Scholar
Crosbie, Christopher. “The Longleat Manuscript Reconsidered: Shakespeare and the Sword of Lath.” English Literary Renaissance 44.2 (2014): 221–40.Google Scholar
Jakacki, Diane K. “‘Canst Paint a Doleful Cry?’: Promotion and Performance in the Spanish Tragedy Title-Page Illustration.” Early Theatre 13.1 (2010): 13–36.Google Scholar
Womack, Peter. “Nobody, Somebody and King Lear.” New Theatre Quarterly 23 (2007): 195–207.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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