The Shakespearian Playing Companies

by Andrew Gurr

This ground-breaking study is the first history of the professional acting companies who brought drama to London in Shakespeare's time. Gurr draws on the most up-to-date research to provide a general history of company development from the 1560s, when the first of the major companies belonging to great lords began regularly to offer their plays at court and in London, to 1642, when by Act of Parliament they were closed down. He offers detailed and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198129777
• ISBN13: 9780198129776
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"