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Shakespearean Playhouses

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Map of London Showing the PlayhousesFrontispiece

An Inn-Yard4

Map of London Showing the Inn-Playhouses9

The Site of the First Playhouses27

The Site of the First Playhouses31

A Plan of Burbage's Holywell Property33

The Site of the Curtain Playhouse79

Blackfriars Monastery93

The Site of the Two Blackfriars Playhouses94

A Plan of Farrant's Playhouse97

The Bankside120

The Bankside121

The Bear- and Bull-Baiting Rings123

The Bear Garden127

The Bear Garden and the Rose147

The Bear Garden and the Rose149

Joan Woodward Alleyn152

The Manor of Paris Garden and the Swan Playhouse163

The Swan Playhouse165

The Interior of the Swan Playhouse169

Plan Illustrating the Second Blackfriars Playhouse187

Remains of Blackfriars196

Richard Burbage234

William Shakespeare238

A Plan of the Globe Property242

The Bear Garden, the Rose, and the First Globe245

The Bear Garden, the Rose, and the First Globe246

The First Globe248

The First Globe253

Merian's View of London256

The Second Globe260

The Traditional Site of the Globe262

The Site of the Fortune Playhouse270

The Fortune Playhouse?278

Edward Alleyn282

The Site of the Red Bull Playhouse294

A Plan of Whitefriars312

Michael Drayton314

The Sites of the Whitefriars and the Salisbury Court Playhouses318

The Hope Playhouse, or Second Bear Garden326

The Hope Playhouse, or Second Bear Garden331

The Site of the Cockpit in Drury Lane350

A Plan of the Salisbury Court Property371

The Cockpit at Whitehall390

Inigo Jones's Plans for the Cockpit-in-Court396

Fisher's Survey of Whitehall showing the Cockpit-in-Court398

The Theatro Olympico at Vicenza399

The Cockpit-in-Court407

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