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Author:

Keenan, Siobhan, 1973- author.

Title:

Acting companies and their plays in Shakespeare's London / Siobhan Keenan.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

272 pages ; 20 cm

Subject:

Theatrical companies--London--London--History--16th century.
Theatrical companies--London--London--History--17th century.
Theater--London--London--History--16th century.
Theater--London--London--History--17th century.
Repertory theater--London--London--History--16th century.
Repertory theater--London--London--History--17th century.
Literature and society--England--History--16th century.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History et Criticism / bisacsh.
Drama.
Englisch.
Theater.
Theatertruppe.
London.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements Textual Note List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Acting Companies Chapter 3: Playwrights and Playwriting Chapter 4: Stages and Staging Chapter 5: Audiences Chapter 6: Patrons and Patronage Epilogue Notes Bibliography.

Summary:

"Renaissance Acting Companies and their Plays explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history. Siobhan Keenan's analysis includes chapters on the traditions and workings of contemporary acting companies, playwriting practices, stages and staging, audiences and patrons, each illustrated with detailed case studies of individual acting companies and their plays, including troupes such as Lady Elizabeth's players, 'Beeston's Boys' and the King's Men and works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Brome and Heywood. We are accustomed to focusing on individual playwrights: Renaissance Acting Companies and their Plays makes the case that we also need to think about the companies for which dramatists wrote and with whose members they collaborated, if we wish to better understand the dramas of the English Renaissance stage"-- Provided by publisher.
"Renaissance Acting Companies and their Plays explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history. Siobhan Keenan's analysis includes chapters on the traditions and workings of contemporary acting companies, playwriting practices, stages and staging, audiences and patrons, each illustrated with detailed case studies of individual acting companies and their plays, including troupes such as Lady Elizabeth's players, 'Beeston's Boys' and the King's Men and works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Brome and Heywood. "-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

The Arden Shakespeare

ISBN:

1408146673 (hardback)
9781408146675 (hardback)
1408146630 (pbk.)
9781408146637 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)860754096

LCCN:

2013047974

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)