Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays
Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays

Author: Lawrence Manley

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-04-29

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 0300191995

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"In this major contribution to theater history and cultural studies, authors Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean paint a lively portrait of Lord Strange's Men, a daring company of players that dominated the London stage for a brief period in the late Elizabethan era. During their short theatrical reign, Lord Strange's Men helped to define the dramaturgy of the era, performing the works of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, and others in a distinctive and spectacular style, exploring innovative new modes of impersonation while intentionally courting political and religious controversy"--

Shakespeare and Dramatic Tradition
Shakespeare and Dramatic Tradition

Author: Samuel Frederick Johnson

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780874133332

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Eighteen new essays by respected critics on Shakespeare and his dramatic antecedents, contemporaries, and successors, offering an up-to-date survey-history of Renaissance theater and examples of scholarly and critical methodology.

Anthony Munday and Civic Culture
Anthony Munday and Civic Culture

Author: Tracey Hill

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780719063824

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This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers.

Shakespeare and the Admiral's Men
Shakespeare and the Admiral's Men

Author: Tom Rutter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-16

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1108210341

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For most of the 1590s, the Admiral's Men were the main competitors of Shakespeare's company in the London theatres. Not only did they stage old plays by dramatists such as Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd: their playwrights invented the genres of humours comedy (with An Humorous Day's Mirth) and city comedy (with Englishmen for My Money), while other new plays such as A Knack to Know an Honest Man and The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon were important influences on Shakespeare. This is the first book to read the Admiral's repertory against Shakespeare's plays of the 1590s, showing both how Shakespeare drew on their innovations and how his plays influenced Admiral's dramatists in turn. Shedding new light on well-known plays and offering detailed analysis of less familiar ones, it offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic culture of the 1590s.