The Business of Playing : The Beginnings of the Adult Professional Theater in Elizabethan London /

Possessing only quasi-amateur standing in the early 1500s, London's adult professional theater troupes became the basis for an enterprise that by the end of the century was to provide livelihoods for many stage players and businessmen and their families. William Ingram here reconstructs the eco...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ingram, William (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Art History.
Performing Arts & Drama.
DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Documentation
  • PART ONE. NARRATIVE CONCERNS
  • PROLOGUE
  • 1. Evidence and Narrative
  • 2. Economics and Narrative: Stage Players in London
  • PART TWO. PLACES TO BEGIN
  • PROLOGUE
  • 3. The Politics of Control: Playing at Mid-Century
  • 4. John Brayne, Grocer: Stepney, 1367
  • PART THREE. 1576 AND ITS NARRATIVES
  • PROLOGUE
  • 5. New Economies for the 1370s: The City of London, 1374-1376
  • 6. A Playhouse at Newington: Jerome Savage, 1376
  • 7. A Playhouse at Shoreditch: The Theater, 1376
  • 8. Another Playhouse at Shoreditch: The Curtain, 1376
  • Epilogue: Playing Places, Players, Play Texts
  • APPENDIX. Did Richard Hickes Build the Playhouse at Newington Butts?
  • Index

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