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In this, the first part of a two-part essay, I examine some basic questions which have arisen in an attempt to reconstruct the first Fortune playhouse: depth of stage, height of tiring-house storeys, number and size of bays of the playhouse frame, location of yard entrances, and location of staircases. In Part ii, to appear in Volume vii of The Elizabethan Theatre, I deal with remaining aspects of the reconstruction, among them seating and sightlines, the stage superstructure, and the design of the tiring-house facade.
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Good general accounts of the Fortune playhouse are provided by Joseph Quincy Adams, Shakespearean Playhouses (Boston, 1917)
E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage (ES), Vol. II (Oxford, 1923 )
G. E. Bentley, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage (JCS), Vol. VI (Oxford, 1968 ).
W. W. Greg (ed.), Henslowe Papers (HP) (London, 1907 ), p. 29.
Printed in R. A. Foakes and R. T. Rickert (eds.), Henslowe’s Diary (HD) (Cambridge, 1961 ), pp. 307–10.
Joseph Wright, Historia Histrionica (1699)
Reproductions in C. Walter Hodges, The Globe Restored (London, 1968; originally published in 1953 ).
Godfrey, “An Elizabethan Theatre”, Architectural Review, Vol. XXIII (1908)
Archer, “The Fortune Theatre, 1600”, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Vol. XLIV (1908).
L. F. Salzman, Building in England down to 1540 (Oxford, 1952 ), pp. 516, 542.
Translation by Ernest Schanzer, in “Thomas Platter’s Observations on the Elizabethan Stage”, Notes and Queries, CCI (1956), 466.
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Hosley, R. (1978). A Reconstruction of the Fortune Playhouse: Part I. In: Hibbard, G.R. (eds) The Elizabethan Theatre VI. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02911-2_1
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