| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 716 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks |
| Contents |
Adult playing companies to 1583 / W.R. Streitberger -- Adult playing companies 1583-1593 / Sally-Beth MacLean -- Adult playing companies 1593-1603 / Roslyn L. Knutson -- Adult playing companies 1603-1613 / Tom Rutter -- Adult playing companies 1613-1625 / James J. Marino -- Adult and boy playing companies 1625-1642 / Martin Butler -- Early (pre-1590) boy companies and their acting venues / Michael Shapiro -- The boy companies 1599-1613 / Mary Bly -- Inn-yard playhouses / David Kathman -- The theatre in Shoreditch 1576-1599 / Gabriel Egan -- Why the globe is famous / Andrew Gurr -- The most convenient place: the second Blackfriars theater and its appeal / Ralph Alan Cohen -- The red bull playhouse / Mark Bayer -- The phoenix and the cockpit-in-court playhouses / Frances Teague -- 'He who pays the piper calls the tune': household entertainments / Suzanne Westfall -- The universities and the inns of court / Alan H. Nelson -- Touring / Peter Greenfield -- Court theatre / John H. Astington -- London street theater / Anne Lancashire -- Not just Sir Oliver Owlet: from patrons to 'patronage' of early modern theatre / Alan Somerset -- The court, the master of the revels, and the players / Richard Dutton -- Theater entrepreneurs and theatrical economics / S.P. Cerasano -- The city of London and the theatre / Ian W. Archer -- Players, livery companies, and apprentices / David Kathman -- Materiality and the market: the Lady Elizabeth's men and the challenge of theatre history / Kathleen E. McLuskie -- 'For the author's credit': issues of authorship in English Renaissance drama / Heather Hirschfeld -- Women in the theater / Natasha Korda -- Early modern naturalistic acting: the role of the globe in the development of personation / Jacalyn Royce -- Actors' parts / Tiffany Stern -- Stage directions and the theater historian / Alan C. Dessen -- Lighting / R.B. Graves -- Music and sound / Lucy Munro -- Properties / Andrew Sofer -- Eyewitnesses to history. Visual evidence for theater in early modern England / Thomas Postlewait -- Christopher Beeston: his property and properties / Eva Griffith |
| Summary |
An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which actors operated. They also explore the practicalities of playing: acquiring scripts theatres, rehearsing, lighting, music, props, boy actors, and the role of women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Theater
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Toneel.
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England
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Handboeken (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dutton, Richard, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9780191743610 |
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0191743615 |
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