Product Description: Walter Hodges enjoys a unique reputation as both illustrator and scholar of the Renaissance theatre. This book consists of fifty of his drawings, with accompanying text, which together reconstruct the original staging of scenes from Shakespeare's plays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The discovery & excavation of the Rose Theatre in London in the late 1980s was an exciting archaeological project. Built in 1587, the Rose was an early outdoor playhouse, where the work of Marlowe & Shakespeare was first performed...read more

The classic, well-documented reconstruction of the famous playhouse contains drawings by the author and illustrations from historical sources and combines facts with a disciplined use of conjecture.