ILLUSTRATIONS[Map of London Showing the Playhouses]Frontispiece[An Inn-Yard]4[Map of London Showing the Inn-Playhouses]9[The Site of the First Playhouses]27[The Site of the First Playhouses]31[A Plan of Burbage's Holywell Property]33[The Site of the Curtain Playhouse]79[Blackfriars Monastery]93[The Site of the Two Blackfriars Playhouses]94[A Plan of Farrant's Playhouse]97[The Bankside]120[The Bankside]121[The Bear- and Bull-Baiting Rings]123[The Bear Garden]127[The Bear Garden and the Rose]147[The Bear Garden and the Rose]149[Joan Woodward Alleyn]152[The Manor of Paris Garden and the Swan Playhouse]163[The Swan Playhouse]165[The Interior of the Swan Playhouse]169[Plan Illustrating the Second Blackfriars Playhouse]187[Remains of Blackfriars]196[Richard Burbage]234[William Shakespeare]238[A Plan of the Globe Property]242[The Bear Garden, the Rose, and the First Globe]245[The Bear Garden, the Rose, and the First Globe]246[The First Globe]248[The First Globe]253[Merian's View of London]256[The Second Globe]260[The Traditional Site of the Globe]262[The Site of the Fortune Playhouse]270[The Fortune Playhouse?]278[Edward Alleyn]282[The Site of the Red Bull Playhouse]294[A Plan of Whitefriars]312[Michael Drayton]314[The Sites of the Whitefriars and the Salisbury Court Playhouses]318[The Hope Playhouse, or Second Bear Garden]326[The Hope Playhouse, or Second Bear Garden]331[The Site of the Cockpit in Drury Lane]350[A Plan of the Salisbury Court Property]371[The Cockpit at Whitehall]390[Inigo Jones's Plans for the Cockpit-in-Court]396[Fisher's Survey of Whitehall showing the Cockpit-in-Court]398[The Theatro Olympico at Vicenza]399[The Cockpit-in-Court]407