Playing Indoors

Will Tosh is Lecturer and Research Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, UK. He led the Indoor Performance Practice Project (2014–16), which examined playing in the candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and coordinates Globe Education’s on-going Research in Action series of public workshops. He is the author of Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England (2016).

List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Note on texts and editions
Prologue
Part I. Playhouse in context
Chapter 1. Origins
Chapter 2. Reception
Part II. Playhouse at work
Chapter 3. ‘Fair lightsome lodgings’: Initial responses to the space
Chapter 4. ‘Full and significant action’: Technique and craft
Chapter 5. ‘This darkness suits you well’: Acting by candlelight
Chapter 6. ‘You can’t help but be involved’: Audiences in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Part III. Playhouse and Research in Action
Chapter 7. Stagecraft in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Chapter 8. Music and lighting in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index