The Repertory Of Shakespeares Company 1594 1613

Author : Roslyn Lander Knutson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557281912
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Repertory of Shakespeare's Company, 1594-1613 written by Roslyn Lander Knutson and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knutson demystifies Shakespeare and his company by providing a clear vision of the dynamics of repertory management and play-going in Shakespeare's England.

Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521807302
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642 written by Andrew Gurr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete history of the theater company in which Shakespeare acted and which staged all his plays. Created in 1594, the company became the King's Men in 1603 and ran for forty-eight years up to the closure of 1642. Andrew Gurr provides a study of the company's activities, explores its social role in its time and examines its repertoire of plays. This comprehensive illustrated history will be an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to know more about the conditions under which Shakespeare and his successors worked.

Author : Roslyn Lander Knutson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610753449
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Repertory of Shakespeare's Co. (c) written by Roslyn Lander Knutson and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Rutter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107077435
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Admiral's Men written by Tom Rutter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the two-way influence between Shakespeare and his company's main competitors in the 1590s, the Admiral's Men. Providing a valuable addition to the thriving field of repertory studies, it offers new insights into Shakespeare's development as well as readings of important, sometimes neglected plays by his contemporaries.

Author : Terence G. Schoone-Jongen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317056167
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Companies written by Terence G. Schoone-Jongen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a period (c.1577-1594) that is often neglected in Elizabethan theater histories, this study considers Shakespeare's involvement with the various London acting companies before his membership in the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594. Locating Shakespeare in the confusing records of the early London theater scene has long been one of the many unresolved problems in Shakespeare studies and is a key issue in theatre history, Shakespeare biography, and historiography. The aim in this book is to explain, analyze, and assess the competing claims about Shakespeare's pre-1594 acting company affiliations. Schoone-Jongen does not demonstrate that one particular claim is correct but provides a possible framework for Shakespeare's activities in the 1570s and 1580s, an overview of both London and provincial playing, and then offers a detailed analysis of the historical plausibility and probability of the warring claims made by biographers, ranging from the earliest sixteenth-century references to contemporary arguments. Full chapters are devoted to four specific acting companies, their activities, and a summary and critique of the arguments for Shakespeare's involvement in them (The Queen's Men, Strange's Men, Pembroke's Men, and Sussex's Men), a further chapter is dedicated to the proposition Shakespeare's first theatrical involvement was in a recusant Lancashire household, and a final chapter focuses on arguments for Shakespeare's membership in a half dozen other companies (most prominently Leicester's Men). Shakespeare's Companies simultaneously opens up twenty years of theatrical activity to inquiry and investigation while providing a critique of Shakespearean biographers and their historical methodologies.

Author : John C. Meagher
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639931
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursuing Shakespeare's Dramaturgy written by John C. Meagher and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Shakespeare studied in this book is Shakespeare the playmaker, engaged in every step of the process from the first draft of the text to the performance before a live audience. This, the author contends, is the Shakespeare that is most essential, the Shakespeare who should be known as the foundation underlying any other treatment of the plays, and the Shakespeare most exciting and rewarding to pursue."--Jacket.

Author : Mark Hutchings
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137462639
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turks, Repertories, and the Early Modern English Stage written by Mark Hutchings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the relationship between the vogue for putting the Ottoman Empire on the English stage and the repertory system that underpinned London playmaking. The sheer visibility of 'the Turk' in plays staged between 1567 and 1642 has tended to be interpreted as registering English attitudes to Islam, as articulating popular perceptions of Anglo-Ottoman relations, and as part of a broader interest in the wider world brought home by travellers, writers, adventurers, merchants, and diplomats. Such reports furnished playwrights with raw material which, fashioned into drama, established ‘the Turk’ as a fixture in the playhouse. But it was the demand for plays to replenish company repertories to attract London audiences that underpinned playmaking in this period. Thus this remarkable fascination for the Ottoman Empire is best understood as a product of theatre economics and the repertory system, rather than taken directly as a measure of cultural and historical engagement.

Author : Robert Stagg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192677993
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Blank Verse written by Robert Stagg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both of Shakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). It ranges from the continental precursors of English blank verse in the early sixteenth century through the drama and poetry of Shakespeare's contemporaries to the editing of blank verse in the eighteenth century and beyond. Alternative in its argumentation as well as its arguments, Shakespeare's Blank Verse tries out fresh ways of thinking about meter—by shunning doctrinaire methods of apprehending a writer's versification, and by reconnecting meter to the fundamental literary, dramatic, historical, and social questions that animate Shakespeare's drama.

Author : Hugh Craig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108127312
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama written by Hugh Craig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Craig and Brett Greatley-Hirsch extend the computational analysis introduced in Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (edited by Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney; Cambridge, 2009) beyond problems of authorship attribution to address broader issues of literary history. Using new methods to answer long-standing questions and challenge traditional assumptions about the underlying patterns and contrasts in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama sheds light on, for example, different linguistic usages between plays written in verse and prose, company styles and different character types. As a shift from a canonical survey to a corpus-based literary history founded on a statistical analysis of language, this book represents a fundamentally new approach to the study of English Renaissance literature and proposes a new model and rationale for future computational scholarship in early modern literary studies.

Author : Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513745
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Early Modern English Drama written by Aidan Norrie and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge, particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays, and without, in the real worlds of playmakers, theaters, and audiences. The book engages with topics such as child actors, alterity, sexuality, foreignness, and locality to acknowledge and extend the rich sense of playmaking and all its ancillary activities that have emerged over the last decade. The essays by a global team of scholars bring to life people and practices that flourished on the edge, manifesting their importance to both early modern audiences, and to current readers and performers.