The Shakespearian Playing Companies
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 25 April 1996
- ISBN 9780198129776
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages492 pages
- Size 242x160x32 mm
- Weight 844 g
- Language English 0
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The Shakespearian Playing Companies is the first history of the professional acting companies who brought drama to London in Shakespeare's time. Andrew Gurr's ground-breaking book draws on the most up-to-date research to provide a general history of company development from the 1560s to 1642 (when by Act of Parliament they were closed down), together with detailed and fascinating accounts of each of the forty companies that played in London during the period. This major work of scholarship will take its place as an indispensable reference work and the authoritative history for all scholars and students of Renaissance drama.
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The Shakespearian Playing Companies is the first history of the professional acting companies who brought drama to London in Shakespeare's time.
Andrew Gurr's ground-breaking book draws on the most up-to-date research to provide a general history of company development from the 1560s, when the first of the major companies belonging to great lords began regularly to offer their plays at court and in London, to 1642, when by Act of Parliament they were closed down. Only in London were the playing companies able to secure purpose-built premises (such as The Globe or The Fortune), and to foster a thriving theatrical and literary culture (in direct contrast to much of the rest of England, which was overtly hostile to professional theatre). In the second part of the volume, the reader will find detailed and fascinating accounts of each of the forty companies that played in London during the period, including Shakespeare's company, The Chamberlain's/King's Men. Although professional playing was very much a collective endeavour, remarkable individuals emerge, from impresarios such as Philip Henslowe, Christopher Beeston, Richard Gunnell, and Richard Heton to stars like Richard Burbage and Edward Alleyn. Thoroughly grounding his discussion in the highly mobile social and political historical context, Gurr focuses on the plays themselves and the distinctive repertory traditions that led the different companies to stage them. These companies, and the growth of the London theatrical culture, are the factors which helped produce Shakespeare and to put into practice Shakespearian conceptions of drama.
This fascinating and authoritative volume will take its place as an indispensable reference work and the authoritative history for all scholars and students of Renaissance - and Shakespearian - drama.
This is one of those monumental works that will last for many generations. ... , he retains in his accounts of the history of playing a lively sense of interdependence of plays and players. ... The lists and statistics are as full and as accurate as current research permits. At that level, this book is uniquely valuable. But it is much more than a compendium of known facts. ... It is a significant aspect of this important book that it carries the story through to its conclusion in the 1642 closure of the theatres. Vivid towards the end of Gurr's narrative, and vital to it throughout, is his feeling for the impact on the entertainment industry of the struggles for power and salvation that divided the nation. The playing place is always social space./Peter Thomson, University of Exeter/ Theatre Research International Vol 23 No 1
