The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608: Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-Boys

ISBN-13: 9780367736545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 252 str.

Jeanne McCarthy

Opis

The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 uncovers the role of the children's companies in transforming perceptions of authorship and publishing, performance, use of theatre space, and religious and gender politics in the sixteenth century.

 

Spis treści

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface. Schooling the Drama

Chapter One. Playbooks and Playtexts: Literacy, Education, and Printed Drama

Chapter Two. Playbooks in the Henrician Era: Test Cases for a School and Chapel Auspice

Chapter Three. Playing I: Literacy and Oral Performance Practices

Chapter Four. Playing II: The Power of Performance in the School Tradition

Chapter Five. Patronage in the Tudor Era

Chapter Six. Playwrights I

Chapter Seven. Playwrights II: Literary Playwriting and Ben Jonson

Epilogue. Jacobean Reactions and Afterlife

Appendix 1: Earliest Editions of Printed Plays in English 1512-1550

Appendix 2: Earliest Printed Plays in English 1550- 1594

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Jeanne H. McCarthy is Associate Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. She has published extensively on patronage, authorship, and performance in the boy company playing tradition.