Project overview
This project researches the fates and afterlives of major Shakespearean playhouses for the first time. Doing so, I aim to write accessibly about final years of these playhouses' early modern operation and the different ways these playhouses have shaped and continue to shape cultural values and assumptions long after they were used for theatre, from technical planning legislation to ideas about classical performance and the literary canon. It works towards a new way of writing “biographies” of place that celebrates pre-modern attitudes towards the built environment, characterised by recycling, adaptation, and transition in their functions and architecture.
