1st Edition
Shakespeare's Companies William Shakespeare's Early Career and the Acting Companies, 1577–1594
By Terence G. Schoone-Jongen
Copyright 2008
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on a period (c.1577-1594) that is often neglected in Elizabethan theater histories, this study considers Shakespeare's involvement with the various London acting companies before his membership in the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594. Locating Shakespeare in the confusing records of the early London theater scene has long been one of the many unresolved problems in Shakespeare studies and... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 Towards a Chronological Framework; Chapter 1 In Stratford; Chapter 2 Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit and Shakespeare’s First Plays; Part 2 Theatrical Contexts; Chapter 3 Provincial Playing, c. 1577–1588; Chapter 4 London Playing, 1588–1594; Part 3 Shakespeare and the Companies; Chapter 5 The Queen’s Men; Chapter 6 Strange’s Men; Chapter 7 Pembroke’s Men; Chapter 8 Sussex’s Men; Chapter 9 The “Lancashire Connection”; Chapter 10 Leicester’s Men and Lesser Claimants; Conclusion The Misguided Mission;
Biography
Terence G. Schoone-Jongen is an independent scholar currently based in Washington D.C.
'Schoone-Jongen's [book] can be recommended for its meticulous marshalling of facts and its lucid dissection of theories.' English Studies
