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A Jacobean company and its playhouse : the Queen's Servants at The Red Bull Theatre, c. 1605-1619 /

The first history of the Queen's Servants, parallel players to Shakespeare's company, and their playhouse, The Red Bull.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Griffith, Eva
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Red Bull Theatre, St. John Street
  • Elizabethan contexts for a Jacobean playhouse: Clerkenwell, East Anglia, The Strand and the liberty of the Clink (1586-1603)
  • The Earl of Worcester, the Essex Circle, the Queen's servants and their playhouses (1589-1607)
  • Who were the Queen's servants? What was The Red Bull like?
  • The court and its women: Queen Anna, her circle, and some women-centred plays
  • Entities and splinter groups: the Queen's servants' companies at the courts, in England and in Europe
  • The company: 1605-1612
  • The company: 1612-1619
  • Conclusion: St. John's Day at night.