Alan H. Nelson

Early Cambridge Theatres

College, University and Town Stages, 1464 1720

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The excavations of the Rose and the Globe theatres have created a context for the study and reconstruction of the English Renaissance theatre. This book engages with this debate by attempting a reconstruction of early Cambridge theatres in the context of the professional theatres of Renaissance London. Cambridge provides a rich source of material: most of the college halls and chapels in which scaffold-theatres were constructed still stand, while records of the Cambridge theatres and the plays performed in them survive in abundance. The book includes a full survey of some dozen Cambridge colleges, the university's commencement stage, and extra-mural theatrical sites used by travelling professional companies, which lead to useful comparisons with the theatres of London. The author concludes with a plea for greater attention to documentary evidence in reconstructing the English Renaissance theatre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 375g
• ISBN-13: 9780521035972
• ISBN-10: 052103597X
• Artikelnr.: 22706844

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Note on sources
1. Introduction: London to Cambridge
2. Queens' College
3. Trinity College from 1605
4. Other colleges
5. The university commencement stage, 1464-1720
6. Secular playing sites
7. Cambridge staging practices
8. Postscript: Cambridge to London
Appendices
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.