Oliver Woodliffe

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Oliver Woodliffe (before 1595 – after 1599) was an English theater director in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Life

In 1595 he rented the Boar's Head Inn with his partner Richard Samwell, an inn in Whitechapel , London, which was also used as a theater , to convert it into an amphitheater. The Queen Anne's Men performed here for a number of years around 1600.

History of the theater

Boar's Head opened as an inn in 1557, originally owned by the widow Poley. The entrepreneur Oliver Woodliffe redesigned the inner courtyard of the inn in 1599 into an "amphitheater" with covered galleries and a partially covered stage, similar to Shakespeare's Globe Theater . From 1621 it was no longer used as a theater.

In addition to the Globe Theater, Boar's Head was one of the twelve permanent theaters in London at the time.

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  • Herbert Berry, Cyril Walter Hodges: The Boar's Head Playhouse . Associated University Presses, 1986.
  • Charles Jasper Sisson: The Boar's Head Theater: an inn-yard theater of the Elizabethan age . Routledge & Kegan Oaul Ltd., 1972.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Boars Head Elizabethan Theater
personal data
SURNAME Woodliffe, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English theater director in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
DATE OF BIRTH before 1595
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH after 1599