The Theatres of Inigo Jones and John Webb

Orrell, John

ISBN 10: 0521255465 / ISBN 13: 9780521255462

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1985

About this Item

Orange cloth, no dust jacket, binding faded at spine & edges, 7 x 10 inches. xiii., 218 clean pp., a few creased corners. Ex library with standard markups including a white label on the spine.

Seller Inventory # 8252

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Theatres of Inigo Jones and John Webb
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521255465
• ISBN 13: 9780521255462
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

The English stage of Shakespeare's day was a place superbly fitted for the rhetorical drama of the times; by the Restoration it had been replaced by a kind of playhouse better suited to the 'Scenes and Machines' which dealt in spectacles. The seventeenth century was therefore a crucial one in the history of the stage, yet concrete evidence of the playhouses constructed during this time has been scarce and elusive. The best of it lies in the drawing which Inigo Jones, Surveyor of the King's Works, and his pupil, John Webb, made for a succession of playhouses and Court theatres. Jones was responsible for the visual aspects of the masques performed at the various royal palaces, and both he and Webb designed a number of regular theatres at Court. In this 1985 book, the author establishes Jones and Webb as the most effective London theatre builders and scene designers of the seventeenth century.

Book Description

This book examines the stage works that Inigo Jones and John Webb who are responsible for the visual aspects of the masques performed at the various royal palaces in the seventeenth century. The author establishes Jones and Webb as the most effective London theatre builders and scene designers at this time.