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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... patrons . The six appendixes identify the 99 players who worked in the 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 ...
... patrons . The six appendixes identify the 99 players who worked in the 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 ...
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... patron of the Shakespeare company . Reproduced by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library . page 3 2. A painting ( School of Robert Peake ) , known as the ' Procession Portrait ' of Queen Elizabeth . Photographic Survey , Courtauld ...
... patron of the Shakespeare company . Reproduced by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library . page 3 2. A painting ( School of Robert Peake ) , known as the ' Procession Portrait ' of Queen Elizabeth . Photographic Survey , Courtauld ...
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... Greenhill on the Frontispiece of the 1673 edition of his Works . Reproduced by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library . 70 74 86 150 154 21. King Charles I , the Shakespeare company's fourth patron X List of illustrations.
... Greenhill on the Frontispiece of the 1673 edition of his Works . Reproduced by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library . 70 74 86 150 154 21. King Charles I , the Shakespeare company's fourth patron X List of illustrations.
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Andrew Gurr. 21. King Charles I , the Shakespeare company's fourth patron , by Mytens , painted in 1631. Reproduced by permission of the National Portrait Gallery ( NPG 1246 ) . 22. Queen Henrietta Maria , by an unknown artist . The ...
Andrew Gurr. 21. King Charles I , the Shakespeare company's fourth patron , by Mytens , painted in 1631. Reproduced by permission of the National Portrait Gallery ( NPG 1246 ) . 22. Queen Henrietta Maria , by an unknown artist . The ...
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... . One secured Marlowe's , the other Shakespeare's . In its repertoire , if nowhere else , at its creation in 1594 the Lord Chamberlain's Men was the Shakespeare company . It served several patrons , was subject to no impresarios xiii.
... . One secured Marlowe's , the other Shakespeare's . In its repertoire , if nowhere else , at its creation in 1594 the Lord Chamberlain's Men was the Shakespeare company . It served several patrons , was subject to no impresarios xiii.
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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