1st Edition
The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-boys
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
Biography
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.
"McCarthy’s study remains an important intervention in the scholarship on early modern children’s performance, offering a series of insights into sixteenth century theatrical practice, a number of new avenues for future scholarship, and an insight into the ‘rich conjunction of oral and literate modes’ on which theatre depended."
- Lucy Munro, King’s College London, Early Theatre
