href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@22397@[email protected]#BURBAGE" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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

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Shakespearean Playhouses

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CHAPTER I

THE INN-YARDS

BEFORE the building of regular playhouses the itinerant troupes of actors were accustomed, except when received into private homes, to give their performances in any place that chance provided, such as open street-squares, barns, town-halls, moot-courts, schoolhouses, churches, and—most frequently of all, perhaps—the yards of inns. These yards, especially those of carriers' inns, were admirably suited to dramatic representations, consisting as they did of a large open court surrounded by two or more galleries. Many examples of such inn-yards are still to be seen in various parts of England; a picture of the famous White Hart, in Southwark, is given opposite page 4 by way of illustration. In the yard a temporary platform—a few boards, it may be, set on barrel-heads