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What is a playhouse? : England at play, 1520-1620 / Callan Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Callan, 1990- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Play--Great Britain--History.
- Play.
- Recreation--Great Britain.
- Recreation.
- Architecture and recreation--Great Britain.
- Architecture and recreation.
- Children's playhouses--Great Britain--History.
- Children's playhouses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Callan Davies researches the cultural, literary, and theatrical history of early modern England. He has taught at universities across the UK and at Shakespeare's Globe, and he is part of the project teams Before Shakespeare and Middling Culture. His work includes studies of Elizabethan playhouses, rhetoric, practice-as-research and a monograph with Routledge, Strangeness in Jacobean Drama.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Archetypes
- Multipurpose Spaces
- Crowd Capacities
- Community Hubs
- Businesses
- Coda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Davies, Callan, 1990- What is a playhouse?
- ISBN:
- 9781003231127
- 1003231128
- 9781000629736
- 1000629732
- 9781000629774
- 1000629775
- Publisher Number:
- 40031366592
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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