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Author Keenan, Siobhan, 1973-

Title Acting companies and their plays in Shakespeare's London / Siobhan Keenan
Published London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Arden Shakespeare
Arden Shakespeare
Contents FC; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Textual note; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The acting companies; 2. Playwrights and playwriting; 3. Stages and staging; 4. Audiences; 5. Patrons and patronage; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
In Bloomsbury Drama Online Core Collection Scholarly Books. Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject Theatrical companies -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century
Theatrical companies -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century
Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
Repertory theater -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century
Repertory theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
Literature: history & criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Literature and society
Repertory theater
Theater
Theatrical companies
Drama
Englisch
Theater
Theatertruppe
Performing Arts.
England
England -- London
London
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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