Links Database: Keyword playwrights

• "This falles out better, then I could deuise": Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/SURROGAT%20PLAYWRIT.txt

  Steele, Kenneth B. "'This falles out better, then I could deuise': Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy." University of Toronto (1990). Steele looks at the development of the figure in each of Shakespeare's plays who either frames the entire play as an explicit artifact, directs and produces a contained performance, stages a theatrical practical joke, or orchestrates the events of the entire playworld toward a comic denouement and how this figure culminates in A Midsummer Night's Dream's omnipotent dramaturge Oberon:

  keywords: comedy, dream, metadrama, MND, midsummer, night's, playwrights, oberon

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Early Modern Plays in London

  http://homepage.mac.com/tomdalekeever/earlymodern.html

  This table created by Tom Dale Keever organizes the most accurate available data on the performance of Early Modern English drama in London from 1576, when the first public playhouse was constructed, until 1642, when the playhouses were closed by Parliament. Data can be sorted by Title, Date, Playwright, Company, and Theater. This HTML page can be downloaded and converted to a word-processable tabled document or to a database like MS Excel so that individuals can work with the data however they please:

  keywords: performance, theater, company, playwrights, london, globe, chamberlain's men, king's men

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Stage and performance history

  valid as of 2007-07-03