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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... company and the 168 plays they are known to have owned and performed , as well as the key documents from the company's history . ANDREW GURR is Professor Emeritus at the University of Read- ing . His many books include The Shakespearean ...
... company and the 168 plays they are known to have owned and performed , as well as the key documents from the company's history . ANDREW GURR is Professor Emeritus at the University of Read- ing . His many books include The Shakespearean ...
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... company he worked for into part of the ceremonial regalia commonly paraded in the acts of worship by Shakespeare - lovers . This book is about the company which made the icon so many of us worship . Shakespeare became what he made Henry ...
... company he worked for into part of the ceremonial regalia commonly paraded in the acts of worship by Shakespeare - lovers . This book is about the company which made the icon so many of us worship . Shakespeare became what he made Henry ...
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... company resumed its original title . Then in 1603 when King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England he took the leading company for himself , later giving the ... company's on ' allowed books ' with the Master of the xiv Preface.
... company resumed its original title . Then in 1603 when King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England he took the leading company for himself , later giving the ... company's on ' allowed books ' with the Master of the xiv Preface.
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... company mined its allowed books for its performances , and thought of the manuscript and print copies made for reading as a secondary form of publication , a residue that they remoulded on stage . From the company's more than ten ...
... company mined its allowed books for its performances , and thought of the manuscript and print copies made for reading as a secondary form of publication , a residue that they remoulded on stage . From the company's more than ten ...
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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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