MoEML: Playhouses in early modern London.

Playhouses

Playhouses in early modern London.

Title	Points on Agas Map	Article status
Bell Inn (Gracechurch Street)		Stub
Bell Savage Inn		Stub
Black Bull Inn (Bishopsgate Street)		Stub
Blackfriars Theatre	Agas Map	Published
Cross Keys Inn (Gracechurch Street)	Agas Map	Stub
John Rastell’s Stage		Stub
Newington Butts		Stub
Salisbury Court Theatre		Assigned
St. Paul’s Theatre		Stub
The Boar’s Head	Agas Map	Stub
The Cockpit	Agas Map	Published
The Cockpit-in-Court		Stub
The Curtain	Agas Map	Published
The Fortune		Assigned
The Globe	Agas Map	Assigned
The Hope		Stub
The Red Bull		Assigned
The Red Lion		Stub
The Rose	Agas Map	Assigned
The Swan		Published
The Theatre	Agas Map	Assigned
Whitefriars Theatre		Published

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MLA citation

The MoEML Team, and Martin D. Holmes. Playhouses in early modern London. The Map of Early Modern London, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 20 Jun. 2018, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/mdtEncyclopediaLocationPlayhouse.htm.

Chicago citation

The MoEML Team, and Martin D. Holmes. Playhouses in early modern London. The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 20, 2018. http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/mdtEncyclopediaLocationPlayhouse.htm.

APA citation

The MoEML Team, & Holmes, M. D. 2018. Playhouses in early modern London. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/mdtEncyclopediaLocationPlayhouse.htm.

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TEI citation

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Personography

Janelle Jenstad

JJ

Janelle Jenstad, associate professor in the department of English at the University of Victoria, is the general editor and coordinator of The Map of Early Modern London. She is also the assistant coordinating editor of Internet Shakespeare Editions. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, forthcoming). She is currently working on an edition of The Merchant of Venice for ISE and Broadview P. She lectures regularly on London studies, digital humanities, and on Shakespeare in performance.
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Kim McLean-Fiander

KMF

Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present; Associate Project Director, 2015–present; Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014; MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.
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Joey Takeda

JT

Programmer, 2018-present; Junior Programmer, 2015 to 2017; Research Assistant, 2014 to 2017. Joey Takeda is an MA student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests include diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
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Martin D. Holmes

MDH

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
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Locations

Bell Inn (Gracechurch Street)

For information about the Bell Inn, Gracechurch Street, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT)’s article on Bell Inn, Gracechurch Street.
Bell Inn (Gracechurch Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (B)
- Variant spellings
Bell Savage Inn

For information about the Bell Savage Inn, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on Bell Savage Inn.
Bell Savage Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
Black Bull Inn (Bishopsgate Street)

For information about the Black Bull Inn, Bishopsgate Street, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on Black Bull Inn, Bishopsgate Street.
Black Bull Inn (Bishopsgate Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
Blackfriars Theatre

The history of the two Blackfriars theatres is long and fraught with legal and political struggles. The story begins in 1276, when King Edward I gave to the Dominican order five acres of land.
Blackfriars Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
Cross Keys Inn (Gracechurch Street)

For information about the Cross Keys Inn, Gracechurch Street, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) page on Cross Keys Inn, Gracechurch Street.
Cross Keys Inn (Gracechurch Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
John Rastell’s Stage

John Rastell built London’s first purpose-built stage on property fronting on Old Street in Finsbury (Giles-Watson 172). Although the name of the stage/playhouse, if it had one, is now lost, we find traces of its existence in the legal record.
John Rastell’s Stage is mentioned in the following documents:
Newington Butts

For information about the Newington Butts, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on Newington Butts.
Newington Butts is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (N)
- Variant spellings
Salisbury Court Theatre
Salisbury Court Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Paul’s Theatre

For information about St. Paul’s Theatre, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on St. Paul’s Theatre.
St. Paul’s Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (S)
- Variant spellings
The Boar’s Head

For information about the Boar’s Head, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on the Boar’s Head.
The Boar’s Head is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (T)
- Variant spellings
The Cockpit

The Cockpit, also known as the Phoenix, was an indoor commercial playhouse planned and built by the theatre entrepreneur and actor Christopher Beeston. The title pages of plays performed at the Cockpit usually refer to its location in Drury Lane, but G. E. Bentley offers a more precise description: Beeston’s property lay between Drury Lane and Great Wild Street, north-west of Princes’ Street in the parish of St Giles in the Fields (Bentley vi 49). Herbert Berry adds that the playhouse was three-eights of a mile west of the western boundary of the City of London at Temple Bar (Berry 624), and Frances Teague notes that it was on the east side of Drury Lane and that [t]he site was long preserved by the name of Cockpit Alley, afterwards Pitt Court (Teague 243).
The Cockpit is mentioned in the following documents:
The Cockpit-in-Court

The Cockpit-in-Court, or The Cockpit-at-Court, was a private Caroline playhouse for members of the royal household, and was located within Whitehall Palace. Its name arose from the fact that it was formerly a cockfighting site at court. It should not be confused with The Cockpit Theatre, which was located near Drury Lane.
The Cockpit-in-Court is mentioned in the following documents:
The Curtain

In 1577, the Curtain, a second purpose-built London playhouse arose in Shoreditch, just north of the City of London. The Curtain, a polygonal amphitheatre, became a major venue for theatrical and other entertainments until at least 1622 and perhaps as late as 1698. Most major playing companies, including the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the Queen’s Men, and Prince Charles’s Men, played there. It is the likely site for the premiere of Shakespeare’s plays Romeo and Juliet and Henry V.
The Curtain is mentioned in the following documents:
The Fortune
The Fortune is mentioned in the following documents:
The Globe
The Globe is mentioned in the following documents:
The Hope

For information about the Hope, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on the Hope.
The Hope is mentioned in the following documents:
The Red Bull

For information about the Red Bull, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on the Red Bull.
The Red Bull is mentioned in the following documents:
The Red Lion

For information about the Red Lion, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on the Red Lion.
The Red Lion is mentioned in the following documents:
The Rose

Built in 1587 by theatre financier Philip Henslowe, the Rose was Bankside’s first open-air amphitheatre playhouse (Egan). Its foundation, excavated in 1989, reveals a fourteen-sided structure about 22 metres in diameter, making it smaller than other contemporary playhouses (White 302). Relatively free of civic interference and surrounded by pleasure-seeking crowds, the Rose did very well, staging works by such playwrights as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, and Dekker (Egan).
The Rose is mentioned in the following documents:
The Swan

The Swan was the second of the Bankside theatres. It was located at Paris Garden. It was in use from 1595 and possibly staged some of the plays of William Shakespeare(SHaLT).
The Swan is mentioned in the following documents:
The Theatre
The Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
Whitefriars Theatre

One of the lesser known halls or private playhouses of Renaissance London, the Whitefriars, was home to two different boy playing companies, each of which operated under several different names. Whitefriars produced many famous boy actors, some of whom later went on to greater fame in adult companies. At the Whitefriars playhouse in 1607–1608, the Children of the King’s Revels catered to a homogenous audience with a particular taste for homoerotic puns and situations, which resulted in a small but significant body of plays that are markedly different from those written for the amphitheatres and even for other hall playhouses.
Whitefriars Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:

Organizations

The MoEML Team

These are all MoEML team members since 1999 to present. To see the current members and structure of our team, see Team.
- Project Leaders
  
  Janelle Jenstad
  
  Kim McLean-Fiander
  
  Martin D. Holmes
- Student Research Assistants
  
  Tye Landels-Gruenewald
  
  Joey Takeda
  
  Katie Tanigawa
  
  Catriona Duncan
  
  Brandon Taylor
- Alumni
  
  Programmers
  
  David Badke
  
  Mike Elkink
  
  Eric Haswell
  
  Research Assistants
  
  Neil Adams
  
  Kim Brown
  
  Cameron Butt
  
  James Campbell
  
  Dominic Carlone
  
  Melanie Chernyk
  
  Patrick Close
  
  Joy Cochrane
  
  Michael Davis
  
  Tara Drouillard
  
  Jeremy Fairall
  
  Joanna Hutz
  
  Noam Kaufman
  
  Quinn MacDonald
  
  Callie MacKenzie
  
  Katie McKenna
  
  Matt MacTavish
  
  Sarah Milligan
  
  Daniel Powell
  
  Liam Sarsfield
  
  Michael Stevens
  
  Camille van der Marel
  
  Zaqir Virani
  
  Dana Wiley
  
  Jasmeen Boparai
  
  Amorena Roberts
  
  Former Student Contributors
  
  We’d also like to acknowledge students who contributed to MoEML’s intranet predecessor at the University of Windsor between 1999 and 2003. When we redeveloped MoEML for the Internet in 2006, we were not able to include all of the student projects that had been written for courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, and/or Writing Hypertext. Nonetheless, these students contributed materially to the conceptual development of the project.
  
  Victoria Abboud
  
  Suzanne Bebbington
  
  Laura Braithwaite
  
  Althea Fletcher
  
  Alyssa Knox
  
  Cornelius Krahn
  
  Tamara Kristall
  
  Kimberley Martin
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Playhouses

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Personography

JJ

Roles played in the project

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Janelle Jenstad is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:

Janelle Jenstad is mentioned in the following documents:

KMF

Roles played in the project

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Kim McLean-Fiander is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:

Kim McLean-Fiander is mentioned in the following documents:

JT

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Joey Takeda is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:

Joey Takeda is mentioned in the following documents:

MDH

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Martin D. Holmes is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:

Martin D. Holmes is mentioned in the following documents:

Locations

Bell Inn (Gracechurch Street) is mentioned in the following documents:

Bell Savage Inn is mentioned in the following documents:

Black Bull Inn (Bishopsgate Street) is mentioned in the following documents:

Blackfriars Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:

Cross Keys Inn (Gracechurch Street) is mentioned in the following documents:

John Rastell’s Stage is mentioned in the following documents:

Newington Butts is mentioned in the following documents:

Salisbury Court Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:

St. Paul’s Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:

The Boar’s Head is mentioned in the following documents:

The Cockpit is mentioned in the following documents:

The Cockpit-in-Court is mentioned in the following documents:

The Curtain is mentioned in the following documents:

The Fortune is mentioned in the following documents:

The Globe is mentioned in the following documents:

The Hope is mentioned in the following documents:

The Red Bull is mentioned in the following documents:

The Red Lion is mentioned in the following documents:

The Rose is mentioned in the following documents:

The Swan is mentioned in the following documents:

The Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:

Whitefriars Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:

Organizations

Roles played in the project

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