THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE
VOL. III
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FROM THE VENICE TERENCE OF 1499
THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE
BY E. K. CHAMBERS. VOL. III
OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
M.CMXXIII
Printed in England
CONTENTSVOLUME III
| PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|
| XIX. | Staging at Court | 1 |
| XX. | Staging in the Theatres: Sixteenth Century | 47 |
| XXI. | Staging in the Theatres: Seventeenth Century | 103 |
| BOOK V. PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS | ||
| XXII. | The Printing of Plays | 157 |
| XXIII. | Playwrights | 201 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Coliseus sive Theatrum. From edition of Terencepublished by Lazarus Soardus (Venice, 1497 and 1499) | Frontispiece |
| Diagrams of Stages | pp. 84, 85 |
NOTE ON SYMBOLS
I have found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol< following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than thatnamed, and the symbol > followed by a date, to indicate an uncertaindate not later than that named. Thus 1903 <> 23 would indicate thecomposition date of any part of this book. I have sometimes placed thedate of a play in italics, where it was desirable to indicate the dateof production rather than publication.
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XIX
STAGING AT COURT
[Bibliographical Note.—Of the dissertations named in thenote to ch. xviii, T. S. Graves, The Court and theLondon Theatres (1913), is perhaps the most valuable forthe subject of the present chapter, which was mainly writtenbefore it reached me. A general account of the Italian drama ofthe Renaissance is in W. Creizenach, Geschichte des neuerenDramas, vol. ii (1901). Full details for