Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company

Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
SERIES PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES ON THE TEXT
ABBREVIATIONS AND LIBRARY SIGLA
Preface
1 Davenant Before the Duke’s Company
	Early life
	Davenant and the Caroline court masque
	Operatic experiments
2 Reopening the Theatres in 1660
	Patents granted to Davenant and Killigrew
	Fighting for survival and control
	Establishing the patent duopoly
	Theatre at the court of Charles II
3 New Performance Spaces
	Transitional theatres
	Changeable scenery
	Staging Shakespeare at Lincoln’s Inn Fields
	The Bridges Street Theatre
	Scenes and machines in the 1670s
	Operatic Shakespeare in the 1670s
4 Davenant’s Repertoire
	Allocating the old stock drama to the patent companies
	Shakespeare in the Duke’s Company
	Interpreting the performance calendar
	Restoration Shakespeare at court
5 Acting Restoration Shakespeare
	The acting company
	Training
	Rehearsal
	Acting Shakespeare in the Restoration
6 Case Studies: Macbeth and The Tempest
	Macbeth
	The Tempest
	Burlesques of Macbeth and The Tempest
7 Davenant’s Legacy
	Purcell, Shakespeare, and the United Company
	Shakespeare and theatrical chaos in the 1690s and beyond
	New adaptations at Lincoln’s Inn Fields
	The Restoration Macbeth and The Tempest in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX