Holger Schott Syme, Andrew Griffin

Locating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603

Material Practices and Conditions of Playing
Herausgeber: Ostovich, Helen

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Produktbeschreibung

Locating the Queen's Men presents new and groundbreaking essays on early modern England's most prominent acting company, from their establishment in 1583 into the 1590s. Offering a far more detailed critical engagement with the plays than is available elsewhere, this volume situates the company in the theatrical and economic context of their time. The essays gathered here focus on four different aspects: playing spaces, repertory, play-types, and performance style, beginning with essays devoted to touring conditions, performances in university towns, London inns and theatres, and the patronage system under Queen Elizabeth. Repertory studies, unique to this volume, consider the elements of the company's distinctive style, and how this style may have influenced, for example, Shakespeare's Henry V. Contributors explore two distinct genres, the morality and the history play, especially focussing on the use of stock characters and on male/female relationships. Revising standard accounts of late Elizabeth theatre history, this collection shows that the Queen's Men, often understood as the last rear-guard of the old theatre, were a vital force that enjoyed continued success in the provinces and in London, representative of the abiding appeal of an older, more ostentatiously theatrical form of drama.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780754666615
• ISBN-10: 0754666611
• Artikelnr.: 31305443

Autorenporträt

Helen Ostovich is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Holger Schott Syme is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. Andrew Griffin, Assistant Profressor, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, Griffin Andrew; Part 1 In
and Out of London; Chapter 1 On the Road and on the Wagon, Barbara D.
Palmer; Chapter 2 The Queen's Men in Elizabethan Cambridge, Paul Whitfield
White; Chapter 3 Motives for Patronage: The Queen's Men at New Park,
October 1588, Lawrence Manley; Chapter 4 London Inns as Playing Venues for
the Queen's Men, David Kathman; Chapter 5 'The Curtain is Yours', Tiffany
Stern; Part 2 The Repertory on Page and Stage; Chapter 6 The Start of
Something Big, Roslyn L. Knutson; Chapter 7 Page Wit and Puppet-like
Wealth: Orality and Print in Three Lords and Three Ladies of London, Ian
Munro; Chapter 8 Truth, Poetry, and Report in The True Tragedy of Richard
III, Brian Walsh; Chapter 9 The Famous Victories and the 1600 Quarto of
Henry V, Richard Dutton; Part 3 Figuring Character; Chapter 10 On-stage
Allegory and its Legacy: The Three Ladies of London, Alan C. Dessen;
Chapter 11 Usury on the London Stage: Robert Wilson's Three Ladies of
London, Lloyd Edward Kermode; Chapter 12 Appropriations of the Popular
Tradition in The Famous Victories of Henry V and The Troublesome Raigne of
King John, Karen Oberer; Chapter 13 Male Birth Fantasies and Maternal
Monarchs: The Queen's Men and The Troublesome Raigne of King John, Tara L.
Lyons; Part 4 From Script to Stage; Chapter 14 When is the Jig Up - and
What is it Up To?, William N. West; Chapter 15 Facial Hair and the
Performance of Adult Masculinity on the Early Modern English Stage, Eleanor
Rycroft; Chapter 16 Performing the Queen's Men: A Project in Theatre
Historiography, Peter Cockett;