Children of the Queen's Revels

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-84356-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

This is the first book-length 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 ground-breaking 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Munro, Lucy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Raiding the nest: the children of the Queen's Revels and their plays; 2. 'Proper Gallants Words': comedy and the theatre audience; 3. 'Grief and Joy so Suddenly Commixt': company politics and the development of tragicomedy; 4. 'Ieronimo in Decimosexto': tragedy and the text; Conclusion: Appendix A: The repertory (summary); Appendix B: The rRepertory (data and analysis); Appendix C: Biographical summary; Appendix D: Actor lists; Appendix E: Court and touring performances.

Über Autor(innen)

Munro, Lucy
Lucy Munro is a lecturer in English at Keele University. She has edited Edward Sharpham's The Fleer and is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), The Book of the Play in Early Modern England, ed. Marta Straznicky (forthcoming) and Writers of the English Renaissance, ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield and Garrett A. Sullivan (2004). She reviews regularly for The Times Literary Supplement, New Theatre Quarterly, Around the Globe, and The Year's Work in English Studies, and is a regular contributor to Smoke: A London Peculiar.