The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642This is the first complete history of the theatre company, created in 1594, which in 1603 became the King's Men. Shakespeare was at the heart of the team of players, who with their successors ran an operation that lasted until the theatres closed in 1642. During these forty-eight years they staged all of Shakespeare's plays, a number of Ben Jonson's, those of Thomas Middleton and John Webster, and almost all of the Beaumont and Fletcher canon. Andrew Gurr provides a comprehensive history of the company's activities. A chapter on their finances explains the unique management system they adopted and two chapters study the fashions in their repertory and the complex relationship with their royal patrons. The six appendixes identify the 98 players who worked in the company, the 167 plays they are known to have owned and performed, as well as the key documents from the company's history. [from Publisher description]. |
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... London - History - 17th century . 5. Theatrical companies - England - London - History - 16th century . 6. Repertory theatre - England - London - History - 17th century . 7. Repertory theatre - England - London - History - 16th century ...
... London - History - 17th century . 5. Theatrical companies - England - London - History - 16th century . 6. Repertory theatre - England - London - History - 17th century . 7. Repertory theatre - England - London - History - 16th century ...
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... London , 1647. By courtesy of the Guildhall Library , Corporation of London . 7. The first Globe , by John Norden , Civitas Londini , 1600. By courtesy of the Royal Library , Stockholm . 8. A detail from plans by Inigo Jones for an ...
... London , 1647. By courtesy of the Guildhall Library , Corporation of London . 7. The first Globe , by John Norden , Civitas Londini , 1600. By courtesy of the Royal Library , Stockholm . 8. A detail from plans by Inigo Jones for an ...
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... London's two leading actors , Edward Alleyn and Richard Burbage , were each allocated a company of fellow - players and a playhouse belonging to someone in their family , and each company was given a set of already famous plays . One ...
... London's two leading actors , Edward Alleyn and Richard Burbage , were each allocated a company of fellow - players and a playhouse belonging to someone in their family , and each company was given a set of already famous plays . One ...
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... London , until then a fairly lawless activity attacked by the Lord Mayor but defended by the Privy Council , started for the first time to play an institutionalized role in London . The Lord Chamberlain , Henry Carey , first Baron ...
... London , until then a fairly lawless activity attacked by the Lord Mayor but defended by the Privy Council , started for the first time to play an institutionalized role in London . The Lord Chamberlain , Henry Carey , first Baron ...
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... London were given similarly strong repertoires of plays , Shakespeare to the one and Marlowe to the other , but ... London's only two sets of licensed players , its status grew largely thanks to its first and best author , Shakespeare ...
... London were given similarly strong repertoires of plays , Shakespeare to the one and Marlowe to the other , but ... London's only two sets of licensed players , its status grew largely thanks to its first and best author , Shakespeare ...
Contents
The plan of 1594 | 3 |
The team | 14 |
The social eminence of the Blackfriars | 31 |
The basis for success | 33 |
The companys work | 43 |
Stage practices and dress | 47 |
The changing personality | 51 |
Travelling | 56 |
Royal support | 176 |
The case of Richard II | 180 |
Jacobean politics | 182 |
The politics of Beaumont and Fletcher | 189 |
Caroline interventions | 192 |
Later political consequences of royalism | 198 |
The afterlife | 202 |
The immediate afterlife | 203 |
Jigs | 71 |
Music and musicians | 80 |
Will money buy em? company finances | 87 |
The ChamberlainsKings Mens company accounts | 92 |
Housekeeper finances | 113 |
Workes are playes the public repertory | 122 |
The Shakespearean sequence | 132 |
Later innovations | 150 |
Along the way | 163 |
Royal loyalties | 169 |
The longer afterlife | 212 |
The players | 219 |
Documents about the company | 249 |
The Sharers Papers | 273 |
The repertory | 283 |
Surviving playtexts | 291 |
Court performances | 304 |
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