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Acting companies and their plays in Shakespeare's London

Keenan, Siobhan, 1973-

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\"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.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
• 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. / PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.
• ISBN: 9781408146675, 9781408146637

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR2589.K44 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE