'Theatre' and 'play+house': naming spaces in the time of Shakespeare

Tiffany Stern

doi:10.1017/9781108773775.013

'Theatre' and 'play+house': naming spaces in the time of Shakespeare

Tiffany Stern

Shakespeare Institute

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The chapter first considers the potential effects generated for audiences who saw Robert Greene’s Alphonsus, before turning to the evidence of Henslowe’s Diary which indicates that the Admiral’s Men frequently performed a play by the name of ‘Mahamet’ before Tamburlaine, thereby encouraging audiences to see Tamburlaine after an imitator, rather than before. The chapter concludes by arguing that the early modern repertory system not only enabled but encouraged achronological playgoing in ways that challenge the standard tenets of theatre history.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
Subtitle of host publication	Actor, Audience and Performance
Editors	Simon Smith, Emma Whipday
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	9
Pages	186-204
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108773775
ISBN (Print)	9781108489058
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108773775.013
Publication status	Published - Mar 2021

Keywords

theatre
playhouse
play
house
tiring house
tap house
music house
swordplay
Shakespeare
Jonson

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