Henslowe's Rose : the stage & staging / Ernest L. Rhodes.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 2, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The theater building -- The trapdoor -- The stage of the Rose Theater -- Five openings in the walls -- The gates -- One door and the other door -- The discovery spaces -- Links between the Heavens and Hell -- The places above the stage -- Synchronous and successive staging -- Medieval and classical staging practices -- Medieval stagecraft and the Vitruvian facade -- The use of properties for special effects -- The use of bushes, trees, arbours, bankes -- The use of tents, beds, thrones -- The use of chairs and tables -- Some utilitarian practices.

Some of the most famous plays in the English language were performed on the stage of the Rose theater, which stood on the Bankside in Elizabethan London. Henslowe's Rose is the first full-length study of this important theater. Rhodes gives as full an account as the evidence of contemporary pictures and documents permits of those Rose, the method of its construction, its general plan, its repertory of plays, and its staging. From the action of these plays he deduces the form of the stage itself and the nature of its facilities. The total of five openings in the walls at stage-level is of parti.

English.

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