Steven Mullaney
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LOCATION: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Author of The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England.
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In 1567 John Brayne went east of Aldgate to Stepney, where he erected a theatre called the Red Lion. It was the first permanent building designed expressly for dramatic performances to be constructed in Europe since late antiquity; the civic authorities of London, already unhappy with playing in…
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