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Author / Creator:	Keenan, Siobhan, 1973-
Imprint:	London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	The Arden Shakespeare Arden Shakespeare.
Subject:	Theatrical companies -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century. Theatrical companies -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century. Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century. Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century. Repertory theater -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century. Repertory theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century. Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century. Literature and society. Repertory theater. Theater. Theatrical companies. England. England -- London. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11304457

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ISBN:	9781472575685 1472575687 9781472575692 1472575695 9781472575678 1472575679 9781408146637 1408146630 9781408146675 1408146673
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Renaissance Acting Companies and their Plays explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history. Siobhan Keenan's analysis includes chapters on the traditions and workings of contemporary acting companies, playwriting practices, stages and staging, audiences and patrons, each illustrated with detailed case studies of individual acting companies and their plays, including troupes such as Lady Elizabeth's players, 'Beeston's Boys' and the King's Men and works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Brome and Heywood. We are accustomed to focusing on individual playwrights: Renaissance Acting Companies and their Plays makes the case that we also need to think about the companies for which dramatists wrote and with whose members they collaborated, if we wish to better understand the dramas of the English Renaissance stage"-- "Renaissance Acting Companies and their Plays explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history. Siobhan Keenan's analysis includes chapters on the traditions and workings of contemporary acting companies, playwriting practices, stages and staging, audiences and patrons, each illustrated with detailed case studies of individual acting companies and their plays, including troupes such as Lady Elizabeth's players, 'Beeston's Boys' and the King's Men and works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Brome and Heywood."--
Other form:	Print version: Keenan, Siobhan, 1973- Acting companies and their plays in Shakespeare's London 9781408146637

Table of Contents:

FC; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Textual note; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The acting companies; 2. Playwrights and playwriting; 3. Stages and staging; 4. Audiences; 5. Patrons and patronage; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.