The music of the Blackfriars' Theatre
27 March 2023
11:30am - 12:30pm
Room VC 104
The King’s Men’s use of the more exclusive Blackfriars’ Theatre (where admission prices were up to a whopping 2 shillings!) meant that a more discerning audience was going to demand more sophisticated and ‘court’-eous entertainment that the bloody heads and rustic jigs of the Globe Theatre. John Edwards discusses the importing of court masque instruments, vocal music techniques, and dance numbers into plays for the Blackfriars after 1600.