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Chapter 4: Fitting Out the Scenic Stage |
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The Restoration |
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The Building at Lincoln’s Inn Fields |
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The Stage and the Legacy from the Masques |
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Candle Power |
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The Auditorium |
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The Scene Painters |
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A Theatrical Advertisement: The Playhouse to be Let |
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Disclosure and Discovery |
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The Rival Managers |
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Chapter 5: Changing Conventions |
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Davenant’s Stagecraft |
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The Villain and Temporal Dislocation |
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The Adventures of Five Hours and Spatial Disparity |
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Elvira and Simultaneous Action |
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Known Contemporary Locations |
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Embryonic Ideas |
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The Place of the Actor |
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Seeds Take Root |
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Chapter 6: “Scenes, machines, and empty operas” |
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Davenant’s Legacy |
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Two New Theatres |
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Dorset Gardens |
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Drury Lane |
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Staging Discoveries and Double Discoveries |
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Staging Spectacle and Set Pieces |
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The Staging of Sir Patient Fancy |
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How Many Shutters Make a Set? |
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Scenes in Perspective and the “Long Street” |
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Practical Trees, Cut-Out Groves, and Deep Settings |