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Author Mann, David Albert

Title The Elizabethan Player : Contemporary Stage Representation
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama
Routledge library editions. Renaissance drama.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on the woodcuts; 1 Introduction: a definition of the context of study; 2 The itinerant player and Sir Thomas More; 3 Evidence of players in Hamlet; 4 Kemp, clowns, and improvisation; 5 Clown as justice: The Mayor of Queenborough; 6 Attacks on the common player; 7 The Poetaster, the 'War of the Theatres', and the Children; 8 University drama and The Return from Parnassus; 9 Histriomastix and the Inns of Court; 10 Apprentice drama and The Hog Hath Lost his Pearl
11 Hey wood, Massinger, and the defence of playing12 Ambiguities; 13 Conclusion; Appendix A: Henslowe's inventory of properties, 1598; Appendix B: Henslowe's wardrobe inventory, c. 1602; Appendix C: The Cradle of Security; Appendix D: Itinerant players at work; Appendix E: The articles of the 'Purge' from Satiromastix V.ii; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century
Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century
Actors in literature.
Actors in literature
English drama
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Theater
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351687614
1351687611
9781351687621
135168762X