Sublime

Notes on Staging What It Looks Like: all illumination is from ostensibly non-electric sources. The first act takes place by firelight, outdoors. The second act takes place in an interior under a skylight in the afternoon. The third act takes place after nightfall, in an interior stage, lit with non-electric instrumentation: candles and oil lamps, p

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Some plays, however, were firm favourites, commanding solid audiences for years; these were often rested for a while and successfully revived for further long runs. Chief among these at the Rose Theatre were Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus and Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy. The Rose Theatre was, when plague and governme

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