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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Documentation -- PART ONE. NARRATIVE CONCERNS -- PROLOGUE -- 1. Evidence and Narrative -- 2. Economics and Narrative: Stage Players in London -- PART TWO. PLACES TO BEGIN -- PROLOGUE -- 3. The Politics of Control: Playing at Mid-Century -- 4. John Brayne, Grocer: Stepney, 1367 -- PART THREE. 1576 AND ITS NARRATIVES -- PROLOGUE -- 5. New Economies for the 1370s: The City of London, 1374-1376 -- 6. A Playhouse at Newington: Jerome Savage, 1376 -- 7. A Playhouse at Shoreditch: The Theater, 1376 -- 8. Another Playhouse at Shoreditch: The Curtain, 1376 -- Epilogue: Playing Places, Players, Play Texts -- APPENDIX. Did Richard Hickes Build the Playhouse at Newington Butts? -- Index
Possessing only quasi-amateur standing in the early 1500s, London's adult professional theater troupes became the basis for an enterprise that by the end of the century was to provide livelihoods for many stage players and businessmen and their families. William Ingram here reconstructs the economic and social history of this remarkable growth through the eyes of the participants themselves-actors, managers, and entrepreneurs, including such important figures as Jerome Savage, John Brayne, Henry Laneman, and James Burbage