Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London

by Siobhan Keenan

Overview

Siobhan Keenan's comprehensive survey of the key acting companies of the early modern period offers undergraduates and scholars a new perspective on how their demands effected the sort of plays being written and the multiple factors which fostered and formed the theatre of renaissance England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408146675
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/03/2014
Series:	Arden Shakespeare Series
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Siobhan Keenan is a Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Textual Note
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Acting Companies
Chapter 3: Playwrights and Playwriting
Chapter 4: Stages and Staging
Chapter 5: Audiences
Chapter 6: Patrons and Patronage
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2015

"Contemporary scholarship on Shakespeare, Elizabethan theater, and early modern culture can seem overwhelming in scope, esoteric in content, and impenetrable in presentation. Keenan's accessible, concise volume is not in that mold ... Each chapter also offers a specific case study in which Keenan meticulously applies the concepts of the chapter to a specific play. Keenan impresses on readers the vitality and significance of acting companies in relation to this celebrated period of theater. This book will be indispensable for those exploring Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Summing Up: Essential. Academic readers at all levels, professionals, general readers." --S. B. Skelton, Kansas State University, CHOICE

"If anyone is seeking comprehensive guidance through the morass of acting companies in Shakespeare's England, this is the place to go to." - Shakespeare Newsletter

From the Publisher

Contemporary scholarship on Shakespeare, Elizabethan theater, and early modern culture can seem overwhelming in scope, esoteric in content, and impenetrable in presentation. Keenan's accessible, concise volume is not in that mold ... Each chapter also offers a specific case study in which Keenan meticulously applies the concepts of the chapter to a specific play. Keenan impresses on readers the vitality and significance of acting companies in relation to this celebrated period of theater. This book will be indispensable for those exploring Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Summing Up: Essential. Academic readers at all levels, professionals, general readers.

CHOICE - S. B. Skelton