THTR-T 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Giorgio Strehler, James Burbage, Philip Henslowe
3 May 2017
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Doors; discovery space (reveals/interiors) -> banquet in the tempest. We aren"t sure about the convention of something like the balcony scene in romeo & juliet. Doctor faustus dragged to hell, grave in hamlet, twelfth night when. Due to the plague, many companies had to tour. 1576! begins the trend of building theatres to be used as theatres. Shakespeare, about 10 years later, works in purpose-built theatres. The theatre (1576) northeast, built by james burbage. Big competition for burbage company, managed by philip henslowe. The globe (1599, burned, then rebuilt 1614) south bank. Same designer / architect of the globe, yet frustratingly we have no contract for the globe. The dewitt drawing - a man from another country saw the swan theatre, was impressed, drew it. We aren"t sure if he drew from memory or sight. Then someone copied that drawing without seeing the original, and that"s all we"ve got. Unimportant play, but frontispiece shows theatre with a trapezoidal space.
