| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama |
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Studies in performance and early modern drama.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations for Frequently-Cited Works; Spelling Conventions; Introduction; 1 From Cripplegate to Bankside; 2 Pamphlets, Plays, Pageants and 'Prentices; 3 'Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang'; 4 Parish and Playhouse; 5 'We now touch the height of humane glorie'; 6 'A Protean actor varijnge everie shape with the occasion'; 7 Theatre, Citizens and Court; 8 The Soddered Citizen: An Investigation; 9 John Lowin: An Actor for All Seasons; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In the first full-length study devoted to John Lowin, Wooding provides a comprehensive overview of the life and times of one of the greatest actors of seventeenth-century England. She examines his involvement in the Jacobean/Caroline world as citizen, performer, and manager of King's Men's Company, and contextualizes his life and career within the socio-economic and political framework of the period |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lowin, John, 1576-1659.
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| SUBJECT |
Lowin, John, 1576-1659 fast |
| Subject |
Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Actors
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Theatrical managers
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317110644 |
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1317110641 |
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