Documents of the Rose Playhouse 2nd edition

This is the second revised edition of Carol Rutter’s publication which reprints with annotations all the surviving documents relating to the Rose Theatre, on the South Bank of the Thames. Ask any layman to name an Elizabethan theatre and the response will usually be the Globe. But the Rose Playhouse preceded the Globe by a number of years, and it was in fact London’s first South Bank playhouse, though professional players had been acting in theatres “north of the city, in a suburb that was beyond the reach of the Lord Mayor’s carping authority but that was likewise remote from...