The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642

by Andrew Gurr

Book Overview

This is the first complete history of the theatre company, created in 1594, which in 1603 became the King's Men. Shakespeare was at the heart of the team of players, who with their successors ran an operation that lasted until the theatres closed in 1642. During those forty-eight years they staged all of Shakespeare's plays, a number of Ben Jonson's, those of Thomas Middleton and John Webster, and almost all of the Beaumont and Fletcher canon. Andrew...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521172454
• ISBN13: 9780521172455
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"