A Jacobean Company and Its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (C.1605-1619)

by Eva Griffith

Eva Griffith's book fills a major gap concerning the world of Shakespearean drama. It tells the previously untold story of the Servants of Queen Anna of Denmark, a group of players parallel to Shakespeare's King's Men, and their London playhouse, The Red Bull. Built in vibrant Clerkenwell, The Red Bull lay within the northern suburbs of Jacobean London, with prostitution to the west and the Revels Office to the east. Griffith sets the playhouse in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107615046
• ISBN13: 9781107615045
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"