The Boar's Head Theatre : an inn-yard theatre of the Elizabethan Age
1972, First Edition. London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul. Good cloth library copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Front free endpaper lacking. Light foxing to edges and prelims; some library marks remain. A well-preserved example overall; internally strong and clean. Item #477824
Physical description; 123 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Edited by Stanley Wells. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cover – Half Title – Title Page – Copyright Page – Original Title Page – Original Copyright Page – Dedication – Table of Contents – List of Figures – Editor's Introduction – Introduction – Chapter I The Inn-yard Theatre – Chapter II The George Inn in Whitechapel – Chapter III The Boar's Head Inn – Location and Early History – Structure and Accommodation of the Inn – The Inn and Theatre from 1594 to 1599 – Chapter IV The Battle for the Theatre – The Legal Background – Alarums and Excursions – A Flurry of Litigants – The End of the Story – Appendix A The Inn-yard Theatre in Chambers, Lawrence and Hotson – Appendix B Brayne, Burbage and Miles – Further Reading – Index. Subjects; Boar's Head Playhouse (Whitechapel, London, England) – History – 16th-17th centuries. Theaters – England – London – History – 16th century.
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