Talk:Fortune Playhouse

Starting Split process
This page created, all refs to Fortune Theatre will be modified to Fortune Playhouse. Details on historic playhouse will be removed from modern article, when task is complete. Kbthompson 11:30, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * doneKbthompson 12:47, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Replicas???
All Wikipedia discussions of Tudor and Stuart theaters should avoid the word "replica," as we don't know what they looked like. Even Peter Streete's contract for the Fortune gives only crucial dimensions, not actual plans. BTW: though Eliz. name spelling veered all over the lot, I think the modern convention has the builder as "Streete," with an extra e.Jim Stinson 20:39, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

It's seriously misleading to caption the photo "OSF Elizabethan Stage, based on the dimensions of the Fortune." The article on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival says, "The result is not an exact replica of the Fortune Theatre. The known but incomplete dimensions apply only to the stage. The original specifications sometimes say no more than "to be built like the Globe," for which there are no plans or details." Amen to that. I've attended several Shakespeare performances at the OSF. Though the stage and stage house reflect pretty much what we know (or surmise) about Elizabethan/Stuart theaters in general, the rest of the theater is utterly unlike them. (BTW, this theater nonetheless offers an excellent Shakespearean experience.) Suggest re-captioning the photo,"Parts of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival stage are based on some of the Dimensions in the original builder's contract for the Fortune."Jim Stinson (talk) 20:05, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Picture
Can somebody find a picture of it?

Unless new sources have turned up since 1961, there are no contemporary representations of the Fortune.Jim Stinson 20:42, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

E. K. Chambers
In the list of references, E. K[erchever] Chambers's name has been garbled to make "E. K. Kerchever". The standard form is "E. K. Chambers". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.152.4.169 (talk) 11:02, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed; thanks for noticing. --Old Moonraker (talk) 16:41, 27 August 2010 (UTC)