Children of the Queen's Revels : a Jacobean theatre repertory / Lucy Munro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munro, Lucy.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of the Queen's Revels (Theater company)--History.

Children of the Queen's Revels (Theater company).

Theater--England--History--17th century.

Theater.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Summary:

This is the first book-length study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. Between 1603 and 1613 the Queen's Revels staged plays by Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, all of whom were at their most innovative when writing for this company. Combining theatre history and critical analysis, this study provides a history of the Children of the Queen's Revels, and an account of their repertory. It examines the 'biography' of the company - demonstrating the involvement in dramatic production of dramatists, shareholders, patrons, audiences and actors alike, and reappraising issues such as management, performance style and audience composition - before exploring their ground-breaking practices in comedy, tragicomedy and tragedy. The book also includes five documentary appendices detailing the plays, people and performances of the Queen's Revels Company.

Contents:

1 Raiding the nest: a company biography 13

2 'Proper gallants wordes': comedy and the theatre audience 55

3 'Grief, and joy, so suddenly commixt': company politics and the development of tragicomedy 96

4 'Ieronimo in Decimo sexto': tragedy and the text 134

Appendix A The Chapel/Queen's Revels repertory (Summary) 167

Appendix B The Chapel/Queen's Revels repertory (Data and analysis) 170

Appendix C Biographical summary 179

Appendix D Actor lists 185

Appendix E Court and touring performances, 1600-13 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0521843561

OCLC:

60418290

Publisher Number:

9780521843560 (hbk.)