The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists
The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists

Author: Terence P. Logan

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13:

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This book gives a comprehensive account of recent scholarship on English plays and playwrights, exclusive of Shakespeare. It includes plays and playwrights of both popular and private theaters for the time period from 1616 to 1642. -- from Book Jacket.

Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists
Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists

Author: Fredson Bowers

Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13:

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Essays on dramatists whose careers ranged from 1558 to 1649 under the rule of Kings James I and Charles II.

Richard Brome
Richard Brome

Author: Matthew Steggle

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780719063589

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Richard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in 1642.This book offers the first full-length chronological account of Brome's life and works, drawing on a wide range of recently rediscovered manuscript sources. Each of the surviving plays is discussed in relation to its social and political context, and its sense of place. A final chapter reviews Brome's enduring stageworthiness into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the most recent Brome revivals.

Children of the Queen's Revels
Children of the Queen's Revels

Author: Lucy Munro

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-03

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781139446051

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This book provides a detailed study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. Between 1603 and 1613 the Queen's Revels staged plays by Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, all of whom were at their most innovative when writing for this company. Combining theatre history and critical analysis, this study provides a history of the Children of the Queen's Revels, and an account of their repertory. It examines the 'biography' of the company - demonstrating the involvement in dramatic production of dramatists, shareholders, patrons, audiences and actors alike, and reappraising issues such as management, performance style and audience composition - before exploring their groundbreaking practices in comedy, tragicomedy and tragedy. The book also includes five documentary appendices detailing the plays, people and performances of the Queen's Revels Company.