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Some of the most famous plays in the English language were performed on the stage of the Rose theater, which stood on the Bankside in Elizabethan London. Henslowe's Rose is the first full-length study of this important theater.
Rhodes gives as full an account as the evidence of contemporary pictures and documents permits of those Rose, the method of its construction, its general plan, its repertory of plays, and its staging. From the action of these plays he deduces the form of the stage itself and the nature of its facilities. The total of five openings in the walls at stage-level is of particular significance, since the most widely held conception of the Shakespearean stage has been based primarily on the De Witt sketch of the Swan theater, showing a two-opening façade.
The contemporary pictorial evidence used by Rhodes is reproduced in this volume for the convenience of the reader. In addition many sketches and plans illustrate Rhodes's findings, which are summed up in a photograph of a model built to specifications derived from such sources as Henslowe's diary, contemporary pictures of the outside of the Rose, and the Vitruvian theater plan.
Publication Date
1976
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication
Lexington, KY
ISBN
9780813154480
eISBN
9780813164397
Keywords
Rose Theater, English theater, London
Disciplines
Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory
Recommended Citation
Rhodes, Ernest L., "Henslowe's Rose: The Stage and Staging" (1976). Dramatic Literature, Criticism, and Theory. 4.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_dramatic_literature/4
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