Barbara Wooding

John Lowin and the English Theatre, 1603-1647

Acting and Cultural Politics on the Jacobean and Caroline Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

In the first full-length study devoted to John Lowin, Wooding provides a comprehensive overview of the life and times of one of the greatest actors of seventeenth-century England. She examines his involvement in the Jacobean/Caroline world as citizen, performer, and manager of King's Men's Company, and contextualizes his life and career within the socio-economic and political framework of the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781409452676
• ISBN-10: 1409452670
• Artikelnr.: 41243694

Autorenporträt

Barbara Wooding is an independent scholar, based in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
From Cripplegate to Bankside
Pamphlets, plays, pageant and 'prentices
'Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang'
Parish and playhouse
We now touch the height of human glorie'
'A Protean actor varijnge everie shape with the occasion'
Theatre, citizens and court
The Soddered Citizen: an investigation
John Lowin: an actor for all seasons
Bibliography
Index.