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

SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYHOUSES

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