Acting Companies And Their Plays In Shakespeare's London (arden Shakespeare)
by Siobhan Keenan /
2014 / English / PDF
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Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London
Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London
explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting
companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre
history.
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.
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:
We are accustomed to focusing on individual playwrights:Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London
Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London
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.
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.