Shakespeare and the Stage
John Kerrigan, 21 April 1983
Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance
by Michael Hattaway.
Routledge, 234 pp., £14.95, January 1983,0 7100 9052 8 Show More
by Michael Hattaway.
Routledge, 234 pp., £14.95, January 1983,
Shakespeare the Director
by Ann Pasternak Slater.
Harvester, 244 pp., £18.95, December 1982,0 7108 0446 6 Show More
by Ann Pasternak Slater.
Harvester, 244 pp., £18.95, December 1982,
“... irresistible, when everything essential to that theatre actually lies beyond archaeology. As Michael Hattaway reminds us in his eloquent new study of Elizabethan Popular Theatre, the Rose, the Curtain, the Globe and the rest did not define the drama that they housed. Far more important than the ‘wooden O’ and ‘cockpit’ were those shared ... ”
