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