Queen's Men and Their Plays

Name: Queen's Men and Their Plays
Price: 45.57 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780521025393

ISBN-10: 0521025397

ISBN-13: 9780521025393

Edition: N/A

Authors: Scott McMillin, Sally-Beth MacLean

List price: $45.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $45.57

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This is the first book devoted to the Queens Men, one of the major acting companies of the age of Shakespeare. In describing the troupes position in the general political situation and the London theatre scene of the 1580s, the authors break new ground by showing how Elizabethan theatre history can be refocused by concentrating on the company which produced the plays rather than on the authors who wrote them. The book combines a thorough examination of documentary evidence with textual and critical analysis, to provide a full account of the characteristics which gave the company its identity: its acting style, staging methods, touring patterns and repertoire. The conclusions will interest…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.858

Scott McMillin (1934-2006) was Professor of English at Cornell University. He was the coauthor of "The Queen's Men and Their Plays" and the author of "The Elizabethan Theatre and the Book of Sir Thomas More".

Sally-Beth MacLean is Associate Director and Executive Editor of the Records of Early English Drama.




The London theatre of 1583



Protestant politics: Leicester and Walsingham



The career of the Queen's Men



The Queen's Men in print



Casting and the nature of the text



Dramaturgy



Marlowe and Shakespeare



Recorded performances of the Queen's Men



Casting charts



Biographical notes, Queen's Men