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Acting companies and their plays in Shakespeare's London

Title
Acting companies and their plays in Shakespeare's London / Siobhan Keenan.
Author
Keenan, Siobhan, 1973-
Publication
London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014.
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272 pages; 20 cm.
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"--
  • "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. "--
Series Statement
The Arden Shakespeare
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.
Contents
1. The acting companies -- 2. Playwrights and playwriting -- 3. Stages and staging -- 4. Audiences -- 5. Patrons and patronage -- Epilogue.
Call Number
NCOM 14-5400
ISBN
  • 9781408146637 (pbk.)
  • 1408146630 (pbk.)
  • 9781408146675 (hardback)
  • 1408146673 (hardback)
  • 9781472575685 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
  • 1472575687 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781472575678 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 1472575679 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013047974
OCLC
860754096
Author
Keenan, Siobhan, 1973- author.
Title
Acting companies and their plays in Shakespeare's London / Siobhan Keenan.
Publisher
London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The Arden Shakespeare
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.
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Table of contents
Research Call Number
NCOM 14-5400
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