Title Boy actors in early modern England : skill and stagecraft in the theatre / Harry R. McCarthy

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Textual Note -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Guessing at the Action: Recovering Performance and the Early Modern Boy Actors -- Embodying the Action: The Case for Practice-Based Research -- (Candle)Lights, Boys, Action: Boy Actors in Early Modern England -- Chapter 1 'All Feats of Activitie, and Motions': Rethinking Early Modern Boyhoods -- 'Let Young Men then Be Exercised': Ideals of Physical Boyhood 'All Manner of Drudgeries': Apprenticeship and Embodied Work -- 'Stronge or Violent Exercyses': The Learning Body -- 'Not Only by What They Said but Also by What They Did': Staging the Active Body -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Staging Skill: Movement, Metatheatre, and Boy Actors' Theatrical Reputations -- 'New Rigg'd Barks': Acting Apprentices and 'the Quality of Playing' -- From Incompetent Ingles to Valuable Virtuosi: Staging Boy Actors' Work -- Body Work between the Lines: Jonson and Marston -- Physical Field: The Boy Actor's Body and Theatrical Reputation Conclusion: Remembering Pretty Dick and Young Antinous -- Chapter 3 'The Bettering of the Body': Staging Sport in the Boy Company Repertory -- Take Your Positions: Mulcastrian Education and the Boy Company Stage -- Playing in Practice -- '(Pur)': Battledore and Shuttlecock in Marston's What You Will -- 'Whose Is the Throw?': Bowls in Day's The Isle of Gulls -- Conclusion: The 'Bettering of the Body' and Early Modern 'Dream Teams' -- Chapter 4 'Sport Indeede': Star Roles as Physical Showcase -- 'Salad Days': Dido, Pandora, and Movement as Theatregram Queens and Squires: Kinetic Connectivity and the Master-Apprentice Dynamic -- 'She Hales Him Up and Downe': Cross-Repertorial Collaborative Violence -- 'Sweating Labour' and 'Sport Indeede': Motion in the Monument -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2022) Subject Child actors -- England -- History -- 16th century Child actors -- England -- History -- 17th century Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism Child actors English drama English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan Theater England Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781009106658 1009106651 9781009116787 1009116789

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