The Dream Factory: London's First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare - Hardcover

Swift, Daniel

 
9780300263541: The Dream Factory: London's First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300263546 ISBN 13: 9780300263541
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2025

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“One of the most exciting and original books about Shakespeare that I’ve read in years.”―James Shapiro

The remarkable untold story of Shakespeare’s first theatre – the playhouse before the Globe

In 1576, in a muddy field in Shoreditch, James Burbage erected London’s first purpose-built commercial playhouse. A place of high culture and quick profit, run by cunning dreamers, the Theatre for the first time offered London’s players the chance to control what they staged. At a time when playgoing was held to be close to a sin, this entertainment factory was a flashpoint for controversy – but would also become Shakespeare’s first theatre, where he learned to ply his trade before his company moved to the Globe.
 
Through the life of this little-known playhouse, Daniel Swift tells the story of how Shakespeare became Shakespeare, and the Elizabethan stage began to flourish. Introducing us to the businessmen who dreamed up the Theatre, the carpenters who built it, the preachers who hated it, and the actors who performed upon its small stage, The Dream Factory recreates the world that produced Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream – and the audiences who first saw them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Swift is associate professor in English at Northeastern University London. He is the author of The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound, Shakespeare’s Common Prayers and Bomber County. He writes for the New York Times, New Statesman and Spectator.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300263546
ISBN 13 
9780300263541
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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