The seventeenth-century stage; a collection of critical essays. Edited and with an introd. by Gerald Eades Bentley.

Author: Bentley, Gerald Eades, 1901-

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1968]

Description: xvi, 287 p. illus., facsims. 21 cm.

Series: Patterns of literary criticism

Subject(s): Theater Great Britain.

Contents: The gull's hornbook, by T. Dekker.--An apology for actors, by T. Heywood.--Induction to Bartholomew Fair, by B. Jonson.--Praeludium for Thomas Goffe's The careless shepherdess, anonymous [Richard Brome?]--On the acting of Shakespeare's plays, by J. R. Brown.--The status seekers, by M. C. Bradbrook.--Shakespeare's celibate stage, by M. Jamieson.--Elizabethan actors, by M. Rosenberg.--The number of actors in Shakespeare's early plays, by W. A. Ringler, Jr.--Ralph Crane, by F. P. Wilson.--Stage duelling in the Elizabethan theater, by L. B. Wright.--Introduction to Believe as you list, by C. J. Sisson.--The discovery-space in Shakespeare's Globe, by R. Hosley.--The audience of the Elizabethan private theaters, by W. A. Armstrong.--Staging at the Globe, by J. W. Saunders.--Bibliography (p. 267-268)