books.google.co.uk - Several famous playwrights of the Elizabethan and Stuart periods, including Shakespeare, wrote for open-air public theatres and also for the private, indoor theatres at the palaces at which the Court resided. The author draws as full a picture as he can of the royal theatres used as courts, the physical...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/English_Court_Theatre_1558_1642.html?id=f9EJ7Re8Pe0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEnglish Court Theatre, 1558-1642