May 18 2014
The Duchess and Early Modern Playhouses
The King’s Men first performed The Duchess of Malfi at the Blackfriars Theatre, their indoor theatre. The company acquired the theatre, located in the former Blackfriars priory, in 1608, and it became their winter home. A higher admission price meant a higher class of clientele, and gentlemen would come to seventeenth-century indoor theatres to see […]
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