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Author: William Ingram Publisher: ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 360
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Francis Langley was a man on the make if there ever was one. He is the entrepreneur who built the Swan Theater and, until now, this meager fact is nearly all there has been to know about him. Yet, William Ingram suggests, "this is like thinking of Henry Clay Folger or Henry E. Huntington only as the founders of libraries. His life was multifarious, and the Swan was but one part of it; to understand the man, we must know what else was on his mind." This book is a rich account of Langley's role in the development of the Elizabethan theater, and a substantial contribution to the social and the economic history of Elizabethan London. Langley, an arrogant, ruthless, violent man of deals and usury, serves as the index to the London of his times. He was, Ingram assures us, imbued "with that spirit of enthusiasm and expansion...of ostentation and aggrandizement, that lent itself so readily to the pens of the social satirists of the period."
Author: William Ingram Publisher: ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
Francis Langley was a man on the make if there ever was one. He is the entrepreneur who built the Swan Theater and, until now, this meager fact is nearly all there has been to know about him. Yet, William Ingram suggests, "this is like thinking of Henry Clay Folger or Henry E. Huntington only as the founders of libraries. His life was multifarious, and the Swan was but one part of it; to understand the man, we must know what else was on his mind." This book is a rich account of Langley's role in the development of the Elizabethan theater, and a substantial contribution to the social and the economic history of Elizabethan London. Langley, an arrogant, ruthless, violent man of deals and usury, serves as the index to the London of his times. He was, Ingram assures us, imbued "with that spirit of enthusiasm and expansion...of ostentation and aggrandizement, that lent itself so readily to the pens of the social satirists of the period."
Author: Carol Chillington Rutter Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719058011 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 282
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Philip Henslowe's Rose was Elizabethan London's first South Bank playhouse. This book sets the background of a working theatre against which the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries can be understood.
Author: Will Sharpe Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198819633 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 240
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Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. In undertaking a rigorous appreciation of his co-authored works, it presents them as distinctive works of art that transform our understanding of Shakespeare the poet, dramatist, and enduring cultural icon.
Author: Susan Zimmerman Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press ISBN: 0838640338 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 449
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Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hard cover, containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres. It includes substantial reviews of significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of early modern England, as well as the place of Shakespeare's productions - and those of his contemporaries - within it. Volume XXXII continues the second in a series of essays on Early Modern Drama around the World in which specialists in theatrical traditions from around the globe during the time of Shakespeare discuss the state of scholarly study in their respective areas. O'Hara reviews work relevant to the theater of early modern France. Volume XXXII also includes another in the journal's series of Forums, entitled The Future of Renaissance Manuscript Studies. Organized and introduced by Peter Beal, the Forum includes contributions by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Grace Ioppolo, Harold Love, and Steven W. May. Additionally, this volume contains seven full-length articles and twenty-two book reviews. Leeds Barroll is a Scholar in Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library,
Author: W. R. Streitberger Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192552287 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 333
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The Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I's Court Theatre places the Revels Office and Elizabeth I's court theatre in a pre-modern, patronage and gift-exchange driven-world of centralized power in which hospitality, liberality, and conspicuous display were fundamental aspects of social life. W.R. Streitberger reconsiders the relationship between the biographies of the Masters and the conduct of their duties, rethinking the organization and development of the Office, re-examining its productions, and exploring its impact on the development of the commercial theatre. The nascent capitalist economy that developed alongside and interpenetrated the gift-driven system that was in place during Elizabeth's reign became the vehicle through which the Revels Office along with the commercial theatre was transformed. Beginning in the early 1570s and stretching over a period of twenty years, this change was brought about by a small group of influential Privy Councillors. When this project began in the early 1570s the Queen's revels were principally in-house productions, devised by the Master of the Revels and funded by the Crown. When the project was completed in the late 1590s, the Revels Office had been made responsible for plays only and put on a budget so small that it was incapable of producing them. That job was left to the companies performing at court. Between 1594 and 1600, the revels consisted almost entirely of plays brought in by professional companies in the commercial theatres in London. These companies were patronized by the queen's relatives and friends and their theatres were protected by the Privy Council. Between 1594 and 1600, for example, all the plays in the revels were supplied by the Admiral's and Chamberlain's Players which included writers such as Shakespeare, and legendary actors such as Edward Alleyn, Richard Burbage, and Will Kempe. The queen's revels essentially became a commercial enterprise, paid for by the ordinary Londoners who came to see these companies perform in selected London theatres which were protected by the Council.
Author: Brian Jay Corrigan Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press ISBN: 9780838640227 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 290
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There is a human face to Shakespeare's theatrical world. It has been captured and preserved in the amber of litigious activity. Contracts for playhouses represent human aspiration: an avaricious hope for profit or an altruistic desire to provide for a family. Lawsuits have preserved the declarations of rights and the righteous indignations as well as the fictions and half-truths under which the Renaissance theater flourished. Leases and agreements preserve the intentions, honest or dishonest, of the men who wrote, performed, and bankrolled the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The period 1590-1623, the limits of the original Shakespearean enterprise, resemble nothing so much as a third of a century of the sort of squabbling, shoving, and place-seeking familiar to every modern theatrical professional.
Author: Herbert Berry Publisher: Associated University Presses ISBN: 9780918016812 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 246
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The Boar's Head Playhouse, Herbert Berry. The Boar's Head playhouse was built at virtually the same time as the famous Globe. This book traces its history, explains much of the way it operated in its heyday, and shows many of its physical characteristics. Illustrated.
Author: Ian Donaldson Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191636789 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 560
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Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, and often stormy, collaboration with Inigo Jones. One of the most accomplished poets of the age, he had become - in fact if not in title - the first Poet Laureate in England. Jonson's life was full of drama. Serving in the Low Countries as a young man, he overcame a Spanish adversary in single combat in full view of both the armies. His early satirical play, The Isle of Dogs, landed him in prison, and brought all theatrical activity in London to a temporary — and very nearly to a permanent — standstill. He was 'almost at the gallows' for killing a fellow actor after a quarrel, and converted to Catholicism while awaiting execution. He supped with the Gunpowder conspirators on the eve of their planned coup at Westminster. After satirizing the Scots in Eastward Ho! he was imprisoned again; and throughout his career was repeatedly interrogated about plays and poems thought to contain seditious or slanderous material. In his middle years, twenty stone in weight, he walked to Scotland and back, seemingly partly to fulfil a wager, and partly to see the land of his forebears. He travelled in Europe as tutor to the mischievous son of Sir Walter Ralegh, who 'caused him to be drunken and dead drunk' and wheeled provocatively through the streets of Paris. During his later years he presided over a sociable club in the Apollo Room in Fleet Street, mixed with the most learned scholars of his day, and viewed with keen interest the political, religious, and scientific controversies of the day. Ian Donaldson's new biography draws on freshly discovered writings by and about Ben Jonson, and locates his work within the social and intellectual contexts of his time. Jonson emerges from this study as a more complex and volatile character than his own self-declarations (and much modern scholarship) would allow, and as a writer whose work strikingly foresees - and at times pre-emptively satirizes - the modern age.
Author: Amanda Bailey Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812245164 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 225
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Here, Bailey shows that the early modern theatre, itself dependent on debt bonds, was uniquely positioned to stage the complex ethical issues raised by a system of forfeiture that registered as a bodily event.
Author: William Ingram
Author: William Ingram
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Author: Carol Chillington Rutter
Author: Will Sharpe
Author: Susan Zimmerman
Author: W. R. Streitberger
Author: Brian Jay Corrigan
Author: Herbert Berry
Author: Ian Donaldson
Author: Amanda Bailey