Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays
Sally-Beth MacLean
(Author)
Description
Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean offer the first complete account of the troupe and its enormous influence on Elizabethan theater. Seamlessly blending theater history and literary criticism, the authors paint a lively portrait of a unique community of performing artists, their intellectual ambitions and theatrical innovations, their business practices, and their fearless engagements with the politics and religion of their time.
Product Details
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Publish Date | April 29, 2014 |
| Pages | 488 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780300191998 |
| Dimensions | 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.3 inches | 1.8 pounds |
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Reviews
Winner the 2015 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize given by the Renaissance Society of America.
"Triumphantly demonstrates once more the value of concentrating on a single company. Patronage, repertory, staging and critical studies blend to bring into sharp focus this exceptional troupe, its enigmatic patron, and its likely place in the career of William Shakespeare."--Richard Dutton, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, Ohio State University
"Combining literary and archival evidence, this meticulously researched book shows how and why Lord Strange's Men--which owned the major plays, players and playwrights of the 1590s--shaped all subsequent early modern drama."--Tiffany Stern, author of Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan, Professor of Early Modern Drama, Oxford University
"An original work of sound and exciting scholarship."--Grace Ioppolo, Director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project
"Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays is without rival: nothing like it has been attempted before."--John H. Astington, author of Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time
"[R]ich and engrossing company biography. . ."--Roland Greene, Studies in English Literature
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