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Full Description
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.
Contents
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.
