Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre (London) Quick reference
An A-Z Guide to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...'s Inn Fields Theatre , London Originally Lisle's Tennis Court, built in 1656 and converted into a theatre by Sir William Davenant in 1661 , for the Duke's Men. It was the first public theatre to have a proscenium arch and to use variable scenery. On 28 August 1661 , Pepys saw Hamlet there, ‘done with scenes very well, but above all Betterton did the prince's part beyond imagination.’ Davenant died in 1668 , but his widow, along with Henry Harris and Thomas Betterton , continued to manage the theatre until the Dorset Garden Theatre opened...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...many areas had limited sight lines) while retaining an intimacy with the players which was central to Restoration theatre. Davenant's Duke's Company occupied the theatre until 1671 when they moved to Dorset Garden Theatre . The intimate ‘Little Theatre’ of Lincoln's Inn Fields was later home to the Players' Company managed by Barry , Bracegirdle , and Betterton ( 1695–1705 ). Successfully refurbished by John Rich in 1714 , it fell into disrepair and ceased to be a regular playhouse after 1732 . See also scenography . Gilli...
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The Companion to Theatre and Performance
...had limited sight lines) while retaining an intimacy with the players which was central to Restoration theatre. Davenant's Duke's Company occupied the theatre until 1671 when they moved to Dorset Garden Theatre. The intimate ‘Little Theatre’ of Lincoln's Inn Fields was later home to the Players' Company managed by *Barry , *Bracegirdle , and *Betterton ( 1695–1705 ). Successfully refurbished by John *Rich in 1714 , it fell into disrepair and ceased to be a regular *playhouse after 1732 . Gilli...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
...'s The Beggar's Opera . It was also at this theatre that Rich first appeared as Harlequin . In 1732 , for reasons that are not yet fully understood, Rich undertook the building of a new theatre in Covent Garden , and moved there in the autumn of that year. Lincoln's Inn Fields was then used mainly for music and opera, except in the season of 1736–7 and again in 1742–3 when Giffard was there after the closure of Goodman's Fields Theatre . The final performance took place in 1744 , and the old theatre then became, among other things, a barracks, an...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...all in a fog there’). The singer Henry Phillips ( 1801–76 ), who rose to sing for the Ancients, tells of ‘very miscellaneous’ semi-amateur concerts ( c. 1815 ) in a ‘large, dark, dingy room in Lincoln's-Inn Square’, with ‘songs, duets, instrumental solos on flutes, horns, bassoons, and pianofortes’, an amateur comic, and a separate pulpit for readings. And at a theatre in Berwick Street, Soho, near the instrument-makers' and musicians' lodgings, the amateur leader would start the overture beating three instead of four with ‘a complacent smile’, assisted by a...
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