Children of the Queen's Revels
Author | : Lucy Munro |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005-11-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521843560 |
History of boy actors in England during the Elizabethan Age.
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Author | : Lucy Munro |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005-11-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521843560 |
History of boy actors in England during the Elizabethan Age.
Author | : Lucy Munro |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2005-11-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781139446051 |
This book provides a detailed study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. Between 1603 and 1613 the Queen's Revels staged plays by Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, all of whom were at their most innovative when writing for this company. Combining theatre history and critical analysis, this study provides a history of the Children of the Queen's Revels, and an account of their repertory. It examines the 'biography' of the company - demonstrating the involvement in dramatic production of dramatists, shareholders, patrons, audiences and actors alike, and reappraising issues such as management, performance style and audience composition - before exploring their groundbreaking practices in comedy, tragicomedy and tragedy. The book also includes five documentary appendices detailing the plays, people and performances of the Queen's Revels Company.
Author | : Edel Lamb |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2008-11-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230594735 |
This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods.
Author | : Julie Sanders |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2014-02-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107013569 |
A stimulating introduction to the drama of the early modern era, through a focus on commercial playhouses and their repertoires.
Author | : Ben Jonson |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2015-07-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781515119777 |
Epicoene, or The silent woman, also known as Epicene, is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson. It was originally performed by the Blackfriars Children or Children of the Queen's Revels, a group of boy players, in 1609. It was, by Jonson's admission, a failure on its first presentation; however, John Dryden and others championed it, and after the Restoration it was frequently revived-indeed, a reference by Samuel Pepys to a performance on 6 July 1660 places it among the first plays legally performed after Charles II's ascension. The play takes place in London. Morose, a wealthy old man with an obsessive hatred of noise, has made plans to disinherit his nephew Dauphine by marrying. His bride Epic ne is, he thinks, an exceptionally quiet woman; he does not know that Dauphine has arranged the whole match for purposes of his own. The couple are married despite the well-meaning interference of Dauphine's friend True-wit. Morose soon regrets his wedding day, as his house is invaded by a charivari that comprises Dauphine, True-wit, and Clerimont; a bear warden named Otter and his wife; two stupid knights, La Foole and Daw; and an assortment of "collegiates," vain and scheming women with intellectual pretensions. Worst for Morose, Epic ne quickly reveals herself as a loud, nagging mate."
Author | : Great Britain. Office of the Revels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brett Gamboa |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2018-05-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1108417434 |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'Improbable fictions: Shakespeare's plays without the plays; 2. Versatility and verisimilitude on sixteenth-century stages; 3. Doubling in The Winter's Tale; 4. Dramaturgical directives and Shakespeare's cast size; 5. Doubling in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet; 6. Where the boys aren't; 7. Doubling in Twelfth Night and Othello; Epilogue: Ragozine and Shakespearean substitution; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Author | : Catherynne M. Valente |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0312649622 |
After returning to Fairyland, September discovers that her stolen shadow has become the Hollow Queen, the new ruler of Fairyland Below, who is stealing the magic and shadows from Fairyland folk and refusing to give them back.
Author | : Lucy Munro |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1474262627 |
Created when James I granted royal patronage to the former Chamberlain's Men in 1603, the King's Men were the first playing company to exercise a transformative influence on Shakespeare's plays. Not only did Shakespeare write his plays with them in mind, but they were also the first group to revive his plays, and the first to have them revised, either by Shakespeare himself or by other dramatists after his retirement. Drawing on theatre history, performance studies, cultural history and book history, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men reappraises the company as theatre artists, analysing in detail the performance practices, cultural contexts and political pressures that helped to shape and reshape Shakespeare's plays between 1603 and 1642. Reconsidering casting and acting styles, staging and playing venues, audience response, influence and popularity, and local, national and international politics, the book presents case-studies of performances of Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Richard II, Henry VIII, Othello and Pericles alongside a broader reappraisal of the repertory of the company and the place of Shakespeare's plays within it.
Author | : Sarah Dustagheer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2017-08-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108118283 |
In what ways did playwrights like Shakespeare respond to the two urban locations of the Globe and the Blackfriars? What was the effect of their different acoustic and visual experiences on actors and audiences? What did the labels 'public' for the Globe and 'private' for the Blackfriars, actually mean in practice? Sarah Dustagheer offers the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the performance conditions of the two sites. This engaging study examines how the social, urban, sensory and historical characteristics of these playhouses affected dramatists, audiences and actors. Each chapter provides new interpretations of seminal King's Men's works written as the company began to perform in both settings, including The Alchemist, The Tempest and Henry VIII. Presenting a rich and compelling account of the two early modern theatres, the book also suggests fresh insights into recent contemporary productions at Shakespeare's Globe, London and the new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.