Jacobean Private Theatre

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Jacobean Private Theatre -- PART ONE Private Theatre: Audiences, Buildings and Repertory -- 2 The Audiences of the Jacobean Private Theatre -- 3 Jacobean Private Playhouses -- 4 The Private Theatre Companies, their Playwrights and their Repertory -- PART TWO Blackfriars Plays -- 5 'A Quaint Device': The Tempest at the Blackfriars -- 6 'A Perspective that Shows us Hell': The Duchess of Malfi at the Blackfriars -- 7 'Some High-Tuned Poem': The Broken Heart at the Blackfriars -- PART THREE The King's Theatre -- 8 Court Theatre, 1603-42 -- 9 'Excellent Creeping Sport': Bartholomew Fair at the Banqueting House -- 10 'The Crystal Mirror of your Reign': Coelum Britannicum at the Banqueting House -- Notes -- Index