Reading Guide for English Renaissance

As always - this is just a guide, not an exhaustive outline of the readings.

• The Tudor line
  
  
• English Interlude
  
  
• School dramas
  
  
• Professionalism in interlude actors
  
  
• Puritanism
  
  
• Influence of humanism
  
  
• The University Wits
  
  
• Ben Jonson
  
  
• Fletcher and Beaumont
  
  
• William Shakespeare
  
  
• Regulations on theatre in the 1570s and ‘80s
  
  
• Master of Revels
  
  
• Relationship between court and public performances
  
  
• shareholding in English companies
  
  
• Richard Burbage
  
  
• children’s troupes
  
  
• The Red Lion
  
  
• The Theatre
  
  
• The Globe
  
  
• The Rose
  
  
• The Fortune
  
  
• structure of theatres
  
  
• the DeWitt drawing
  
  
• private theatres
  
  
• Blackfriars
  
  
• The Cockpit in Court
  
  
• influences on scenic conventions
  
  
• admission to theatres
  
  
• court masques and influence of Italy
  
  
• Inigo Jones
  
  
• 1642

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