Jeanne McCarthy

The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608

Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-boys

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Produktbeschreibung

The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 uncovers the role of the children's companies in transforming perceptions of authorship and publishing, performance, use of theatre space, and religious and gender politics in the sixteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781472487797
• ISBN-10: 1472487796
• Artikelnr.: 47858512

Autorenporträt

Jeanne H. McCarthy is Associate Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. She has published extensively on patronage, authorship, and performance in the boy company playing tradition.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface. Schooling the Drama
Chapter One. Playbooks and Playtexts: Literacy, Education, and Printed
Drama
Chapter Two. Playbooks in the Henrician Era: Test Cases for a School and
Chapel Auspice
Chapter Three. Playing I: Literacy and Oral Performance Practices
Chapter Four. Playing II: The Power of Performance in the School Tradition
Chapter Five. Patronage in the Tudor Era
Chapter Six. Playwrights I
Chapter Seven. Playwrights II: Literary Playwriting and Ben Jonson
Epilogue. Jacobean Reactions and Afterlife
Appendix 1: Earliest Editions of Printed Plays in English 1512-1550
Appendix 2: Earliest Printed Plays in English 1550- 1594
Bibliography
Index