Moving Shakespeare Indoors

This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.

Introduction Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper; Part I. The Context of Hard Evidence: 1. Why the theatres changed John H. Astington; 2. Practical evidence for a re-imagined indoor Jacobean theatre Jon Greenfield and Peter McCurdy; 3. Documentary evidence for an indoor Jacobean theatre Oliver Jones; 4. Continuities and innovations in staging Mariko Ichikawa; Part II. Materiality Indoors: 5. 'A ruinous monastery': the Second Blackfriars playhouse as a place of nostalgia Tiffany Stern; 6. 'When torchlight made an artificial noon': light and darkness in the indoor Jacobean theatre Martin White; 7. Acoustic and visual practices indoors Sarah Dustagheer; 8. The audience of the indoor theatre Penelope Woods; 9. In the event of fire Paul Menzer; 10. To glisten in a playhouse: cosmetic beauty indoors Farah Karim-Cooper; Part III. The New Fashions for Indoors: 11. The new fashion for indoor plays Andrew Gurr; 12. Changing fashions: tragicomedy, romance and heroic women in the 1630s hall-playhouses Eleanor Collins; 13. Reviving the legacy of indoor performance Bart van Es; Appendix: list of plays performed at indoor playhouses, 1575¿1642 Sarah Dustagheer.