The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642
The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642

Author: Gerald Eades Bentley

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1400853265

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This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular theaters of England. Gerald Bentley discusses sharers, hired men, boy apprentices, musicians, touring groups, and managers, showing that players in general led difficult but seriously professional lives. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642
Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642

Author: Gerald Eades Bentley

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1400872421

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Gerald Eades Bentley assembles and analyzes the extant theatrical materials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His discussion of the working conditions of professional dramatists like Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher, and Philip Massinger as well as William Shakespeare rounds out the fascinating picture of the professionalism that developed in the great days of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642
The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642

Author: Andrew Gurr

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-01-23

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780521422406

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The only authoritative, one-volume book to describe all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama.

The Tempest
The Tempest

Author: Brinda Charry

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-01-13

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1350284157

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The Tempest: Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism from key literary figures, such as Ben Jonson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Dryden, John Ruskin and Edward Malone. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.

Shakespeare
Shakespeare

Author: David M. Bergeron

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13:

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"This updated edition should be welcomed by anyone interested in Shakespeare. Particularly useful are its pithy introductions and bibliographies on various critical approaches". -- David Bevington, editor of Complete Works of Shakespeare. "A handy, compact map to the changing and contested field of Shakespeare studies". -- Bruce R. Smith, author of Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare
Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare

Author: Douglas Bruster

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-01-27

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780521607063

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Douglas Bruster's provocative study of English Renaissance drama explores its links with Elizabethan and Jacobean economy and society, looking at the status of playwrights such as Shakespeare and the establishment of commercial theatres. He identifies in the drama a materialist vision which has its origins in the climate of uncertainty engendered by the rapidly expanding economy of London. His examples range from the economic importance of cuckoldry to the role of stage props as commodities, and the commercial significance of the Troy story in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and he offers new ways of reading English Renaissance drama, by returning the theatre and the plays performed there, to its basis in the material world.

The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher
The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher

Author: Sandra Clark

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 131786669X

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This is an analysis of sexual themes in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, both in the context of the Jacobean theatre and in the light of modern readings of sexuality and gender during the English Renaissance. Sandra Clark challenges commonly-held perceptions of Beaumont and Fletcher's work. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate courses on Renaissance literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, tragicomedy, gender and genre in the Renaissance.

A Companion to Henslowe's Diary
A Companion to Henslowe's Diary

Author: Neil Carson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780521543460

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A thorough analysis of Philip Henslowe's diary which provides a unique source of information on Elizabethan repertory theatre.