Details

Subject(s)

• Boar's Head Playhouse (Whitechapel, London, England) [Browse]
• Theaters—England—London—History—16th century [Browse]

Related name

• Wells, Stanley, 1930- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge revivals. [More in this series]
• Routledge Revivals

Summary note

The Boar's Head Theatre, first published in 1972, provides an account of one of the Elizabethan inn-yard theatres. Historians of the theatre of this period will find this book indispensable, and those with a more general interest in the greatest age of English drama will be engrossed by the detailed and intimate glimpses of the theatre world which this story affords.

Notes

First published in 1972 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

• Description based on print version record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Language note

English

Contents

• ""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Original Title Page""; ""Original Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Editor's Introduction""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter I The Inn-yard Theatre""; ""Chapter II The George Inn in Whitechapel""; ""Chapter III The Boar's Head Inn""; ""Location and Early History""; ""Structure and Accommodation of the Inn""; ""The Inn and Theatre from 1594 to 1599""; ""Chapter IV The Battle for the Theatre""; ""The Legal Background""; ""Alarums and Excursions""; ""A Flurry of Litigants""
• ""The End of the Story""""Appendix A The Inn-yard Theatre in Chambers, Lawrence and Hotson""; ""Appendix B Brayne, Burbage and Miles""; ""Further Reading""; ""Index""

ISBN

• 1-315-71402-7
• 1-317-49975-1

OCLC

• 958107327
• 929510077

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315714028

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