Joseph Quincy Adams

Ithaca, New York

CONTENTS

I.[The Inn-Yards] [1]
II.[The Hostility of the City][18]
III.[The Theatre][27]
IV.[The Curtain][75]
V.[The First Blackfriars][91]
VI.[St. Paul's][111]
VII.[The Bankside and the Bear Garden][119]
VIII.[Newington Butts][134]
IX.[The Rose][142]
X.[The Swan][161]
XI.[The Second Blackfriars][182]
XII.[The Globe][234]
XIII.[The Fortune][267]
XIV.[The Red Bull][294]
XV.[Whitefriars][310]
XVI.[The Hope][324]
XVII.[Rosseter's Blackfriars, or Porter's Hall][342]
XVIII. [The Phœnix, or Cockpit in Drury Lane][348]
XIX.[Salisbury Court][368]
XX.[The Cockpit-in-Court, or Theatre Royal at Whitehall][384]
XXI. [Miscellaneous: Wolf's Theatre in Nightingale Lane; The Projected "Amphitheatre"; Ogilby's Dublin Theatre; The French Players' Temporary Theatre in Drury Lane; Davenant's Projected Theatre in Fleet Street][410]
[Bibliography][433]
[Maps and Views of London][457]
[Index][461]

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