Early Cambridge Theatres(English, Hardcover, Nelson Alan H.)

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Early Cambridge Theatres(English, Hardcover, Nelson Alan H.) is written by Nelson Alan H. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521431778 (ISBN 10) and 9780521431774 (ISBN 13).

The excavations of the Rose and the Globe theatres have created a context for the study and reconstruction of the English Renaissance theatre. This book engages with this debate by attempting a reconstruction of early Cambridge theatres in the context of the professional theatres of Renaissance London. Cambridge provides a rich source of material: most of the college halls and chapels in which scaffold-theatres were constructed still stand, while records of the Cambridge theatres and the plays performed in them survive in abundance. The book includes a full survey of some dozen Cambridge colleges, the university's commencement stage, and extra-mural theatrical sites used by travelling professional companies, which lead to useful comparisons with the theatres of London. The author concludes with a plea for greater attention to documentary evidence in reconstructing the English Renaissance theatre.