Following Laurie Johnson's introduction to the area, we are thankful to Sally-Beth MacLean for some archival insight into Jerome Savage and the playhouse in our second feature on the Newington Butts Playhouse (with MS images courtesy of The National Archives and Canterbury Cathedral Archives)... *** The early playhouse at Newington Butts continues to elude new … Continue reading Lawsuits and Leases at Newington Butts Playhouse
Guest Post
High and Dry at Newington Butts: The Genesis of the Permanent Playhouse
We are pleased to host the a double-bill of guest posts on the Newington Butts Playhouse. Next week, Sally-Beth MacLean examines issues pertaining to renting the grounds of this early playhouse. Here, Laurie Johnson, the recent author of the only book devoted to the long-overlooked playhouse, introduces us to the area . . . *** … Continue reading High and Dry at Newington Butts: The Genesis of the Permanent Playhouse
The Man with the Golden Pen
We're very pleased to present a guest post by Derek Dunne on a fascinating event at the Blackfriars... *** Do you know who the best writer of Elizabethan London was? Not the most prolific, or the most poetic, or the most popular, but simply the best writer. This is a contentious question among scholars, but … Continue reading The Man with the Golden Pen
Genre and the Elizabethan Troupe
We are very happy to present below a guest post from Elizabeth E. Tavares (Pacific University Oregon) on genre and the Elizabethan troupe. *** What I find most pressing about Andy Kesson’s post, “Generic excitement,” are his methodological queries: how does genre organize our scholarship? To what extent do we implicitly rely on this typology as an “interpretive precondition”? … Continue reading Genre and the Elizabethan Troupe
Announcing the Launch of REED Online
Research for Before Shakespeare (as any project interested in theatre and performance history) sits on the advances made through major projects over the past decades, particularly by the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project based at the University of Toronto. REED has provided theatre historians with an invaluable resource in its collections of performance documents and records from … Continue reading Announcing the Launch of REED Online
Shakespeare: A knack for following theatrical fashion
Venice. Two faithful friends are pitted against a vengeful moneylender who is out for blood. In a climactic trial scene they proclaim their willingness to die for each other; the moneylender’s revenge rebounds against him when a woman outwits him, and in a further twist of the knife his daughter ends up married to a … Continue reading Shakespeare: A knack for following theatrical fashion
keywords for collaboration
by Liz Oakley-Brown curiosity 13 Jul 2016 10:22 Between Shakespeare Dear Andy, I'm in town for London leg of W[orld] S[hakespeare] C[ongress]. Any chance I could attend am workshop activity on August 5th? In haste, Liz (Oakley-Brown) exploration Fri 29/07/2016 14:22 into the woods with Galatea Dear Galatea workshop attenders, Thank you … Continue reading keywords for collaboration
Galatea Workshop Response: Hester Bradley
We are very pleased to host Hester Bradley's response to the Galatea workshops hosted at the Jerwood Space in August this year. Hester is a PhD student at Oxford Brookes, whose work explores what representations of the moon by John Lyly and William Shakespeare can reveal about contemporary ideas of female identity and personhood. *** I attended … Continue reading Galatea Workshop Response: Hester Bradley
Before Shakespeare in Performance
"When in Toledo there I studied, It was my chance to write a tragedy - See here my lords - [He shows them a book] Which long forgot, I found this other day. Now would your lordships favour me so much As but to grace me with your acting it - I mean each one … Continue reading Before Shakespeare in Performance
Earthquakes at the Curtain playhouse
Yesterday’s exciting press release about MOLA’s excavations at the former location of London’s Curtain Theatre reminded me of Thomas Churchyard’s striking vignette about the playhouse in his pamphlet A warning for the wise, a feare to the fond, a bridle to the lewde, and a glasse to the good Written of the late earthquake chanced in … Continue reading Earthquakes at the Curtain playhouse
