Chapter I: Front Matter

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Transcriber’s Notes

This e-text is based on the printed edition of ‘Shakespeare and the Stage,’ by Maurice Jonas, from 1918. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been retained, but punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected.

Illustrations, as well as facsimiles of book titles and exemplary book pages, have been moved between two paragraphs for reasons of clarity and comprehensibility. As a consequence, page references for illustrations have been removed, because in most cases they are no longer consistent with the original. Some title lines of the facsimile pages seem to be cropped at the upper end. These errors originate from the printed book; the rest of the titles cannot be retrieved.

The chapters in the original book have been numbered inconsistently; the correct numbering scheme has been applied to this electronic version.

Repeated, missing or inconsistent quotations have been adopted from the original without modifications. No changes have been made to passages copied from Shakespeare’s plays by the author; some suspected errors have not been corrected.

Special characters have been used to highlight the following font styles:

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Caret symbols (^) precede superscript characters in the original; small caps have been transformed into regular uppercase letters.

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SHAKESPEARE AND THE STAGE

SHAKESPEARE
AND THE STAGE

WITH A COMPLETE LIST OF THEATRICAL
TERMS USED BY SHAKESPEARE IN HIS
PLAYS AND POEMS, ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL
ORDER, & EXPLANATORY NOTES

BY
MAURICE JONAS

AUTHOR OF “NOTES OF AN ART COLLECTOR AND MASUCCIO.”

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON:
DAVIS AND ORIOLI
24 MUSEUM STREET
MCMXVIII

PRINTED IN ENGLAND
BY THE WESTMINSTER PRESS,
411A, HARROW ROAD, LONDON, W.

CONTENTS

PAGE

The Early Drama 1

Inn-Yards 9

The Theatres 24

London Theatrical Companies 141

Shakespeare as an Actor 184

Court Performances 203

Theatrical Allusions 233

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Interior of the Swan Theatre _Frontispiece_

_Facing page_

A Stage Play in Progress at an Inn-yard 12

A Typical Inn-yard in Elizabethan Times, used by the Players 12

The Swan Theatre. From Visscher’s Map of London, 1616 81

The Plot of England’s Joy 86

The Rose Theatre or the First Globe Theatre 87

Frontispiece to James Howell’s Londinopolis, 1657, showing the
position of four London Theatres, circa 1600 96

The Second Fortune Theatre, 1621 113

The Red Bull Theatre 117

Facsimile of an Admission Ticket to the Roman Coliseum 120

Ticket of Admission to the Red Bull Theatre 120

The Second Globe Theatre, 1614, and the Hope 121

The Palace of Whitehall 206

Banqueting Hall and Holbein Gate, Whitehall Tiltyard in
foreground 206

Greenwich Palace in the time of Elizabeth 216

Interior of the Middle Temple Hall 227

Interior of the Old Inner Temple Hall 228

Facsimile of Passage in Manningham’s Diary, referring to
Twelfth Night 228

Interior of Gray’s Inn Hall 231

Jocasta: A Tragedie written in Greek by Euripides 232

Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and
Tragedies 233