Book contents
- Shakespeare’s Stages
- Shakespeare’s Stages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Videos
- Audios
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- A Tale of Two Playhouses
- City Performance
- Innyard Spaces
- The Playhouse Audience
- The Theatre’s Warm-up Acts
- Constructing the Globe
- Prologue
- Surviving Drawings
- The Swan Sketch
- The Shape of the Stage
- Alternative Stage Shapes
- The Curtain and Blackfriars Stages
- Seating and Sightlines
- How Many Doors Had the 1599 Globe?
- The Tiring House
- Stage Decoration
- Shakespeare by Candlelight
- Heavens, Pillars, Trap
- The Balcony
- Music and Sound
- Special Effects
- Epilogue: Bringing the House Down
- Works Cited
The Swan Sketch
from Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2025
- Shakespeare’s Stages
- Shakespeare’s Stages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Videos
- Audios
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- A Tale of Two Playhouses
- City Performance
- Innyard Spaces
- The Playhouse Audience
- The Theatre’s Warm-up Acts
- Constructing the Globe
- Prologue
- Surviving Drawings
- The Swan Sketch
- The Shape of the Stage
- Alternative Stage Shapes
- The Curtain and Blackfriars Stages
- Seating and Sightlines
- How Many Doors Had the 1599 Globe?
- The Tiring House
- Stage Decoration
- Shakespeare by Candlelight
- Heavens, Pillars, Trap
- The Balcony
- Music and Sound
- Special Effects
- Epilogue: Bringing the House Down
- Works Cited
Summary
What did the Globe look like inside? Understandably, theatre historians have been quick to turn to the only drawing of the inside of an early modern playhouse that seems to have survived in order to get an idea of the Globe’s interior. The sketch in Figure 13.1 depicts the Swan playhouse, which a Dutch tourist, Johannes de Witt, visited in 1596.
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- Shakespeare's Stages , pp. 16 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressFirst published in: 2025