Reconstructing the Rose: 3D Computer Modelling Philip Henslowe’s Playhouse

Roger Clegg

Computer modelling by Eric Tatham, Mixed Reality Ltd.

  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Referencing conventions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The topography
  • 3. The plot
    • 3.1 Sewer and boundary ditches
  • 4. The Rose playhouse, Phase I (1587–1591/2) [video]
    • 4.1 Bridges and main entrance
    • 4.2 Exterior decoration
      • 4.2.1 The sign of the Rose
      • 4.2.2 Timber frame
    • 4.3 Walls
      • 4.3.1 Outer walls
      • 4.3.2 Windows
      • 4.3.3 Inner walls
    • 4.4 Timber superstructure
      • 4.4.1 The galleries
      • 4.4.2 Jutties
    • 4.5 The yard
      • 4.5.1 Relative heights
      • 4.5.2 Main entrance to the playhouse
    • 4.6 ‘Ingressus,’ or entrance into the lower gallery
    • 4.7 Stairways
    • 4.8 Gallery ‘rooms’?
      • 4.8.1 Seating
    • 4.9 The stage
      • 4.9.1 A roof, cover or ‘heavens’ over the stage?
      • 4.9.2 A trap door in the stage?
    • 4.10 Playhouse decoration
    • 4.11 Level 1
      • 4.11.1 Stage doors and central opening
      • 4.11.2 Tiring house
      • 4.11.3 Back entrance to the tiring house and stairs to Level 2
    • 4.12. Level 2
      • 4.12.1 Three-penny rooms
      • 4.12.2 Middle balcony
      • 4.12.3 Stairs to Level 3
    • 4.13 Level 3
      • 4.13.1 Upper balcony
      • 4.13.2 Heavens
      • 4.13.3 Henslowe’s office
    • 4.14 Gable
    • 4.15 Roof
  • 5. The Rose playhouse, Phase II (1591/2–1606) [video]
    • 5.1 Alterations to the playhouse
    • 5.2 Exterior decoration
    • 5.3 Walls
    • 5.4 The yard
    • 5.5 Ingress
    • 5.6 Stairs up to the galleries
    • 5.7 Lower galleries
      • 5.7.1 Two-penny galleries
      • 5.7.2 Three-penny rooms
      • 5.7.3 Gentlemen’s rooms/‘Lords room’
    • 5.8 The stage
      • 5.8.1 Trap door
      • 5.8.2 Sub-stage decorations
      • 5.8.3 Stage surface
      • 5.8.4 Stage pillars
      • 5.8.5 Roof or cover over the stage
      • 5.8.6 Heavens
    • 5.9 Level 1
      • 5.9.1 Frons Scenae
      • 5.9.2 Stage doors
      • 5.9.3 Central opening (or ‘discovery space’) with curtains
      • 5.9.4 Central doors
      • 5.9.5 Tiring-house rear entrance and penthouse shed
      • 5.9.6 Tiring-house stairs to Level 2
    • 5.10 Level 2
      • 5.10.1 Three-penny rooms
      • 5.10.2 Gentlemen’s rooms
      • 5.10.3 Gallery, or room over the tiring-house
    • 5.11 Level 3
      • 5.11.1 Frons Scenae ‘heavens’
    • 5.12 The gable
  • 6.John Cholmley’s victualling house
    • 6.1 The building
    • 6.2 Selling
    • 6.3 Food and drink
  • 7. Works cited
  • 8. Contributors
  • Appendix [video]

Copyright 2019 by Roger Clegg. Reconstructing the Rose is published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License.

The playhouse, looking west along Maiden Lane, showing the sign of the Rose

4.2 Exterior decoration

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4.2.1 The sign of the Rose

4.1 Bridges and main entrance

4.2.1 The sign of the Rose