The Business of Playing : The Beginnings of the Adult Professional Theater in Elizabethan London / William Ingram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingram, William, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing Arts & Drama.

Local Subjects:

Performing Arts & Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.) : 8 b&w illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Possessing only quasi-amateur standing in the early 1500s, London's adult professional theater troupes became the basis for an enterprise that by the end of the century was to provide livelihoods for many stage players and businessmen and their families. William Ingram here reconstructs the economic and social history of this remarkable growth through the eyes of the participants themselves-actors, managers, and entrepreneurs, including such important figures as Jerome Savage, John Brayne, Henry Laneman, and James Burbage.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Documentation

PART ONE. NARRATIVE CONCERNS

PROLOGUE

1. Evidence and Narrative

2. Economics and Narrative: Stage Players in London

PART TWO. PLACES TO BEGIN

3. The Politics of Control: Playing at Mid-Century

4. John Brayne, Grocer: Stepney, 1367

PART THREE. 1576 AND ITS NARRATIVES

5. New Economies for the 1370s: The City of London, 1374-1376

6. A Playhouse at Newington: Jerome Savage, 1376

7. A Playhouse at Shoreditch: The Theater, 1376

8. Another Playhouse at Shoreditch: The Curtain, 1376

Epilogue: Playing Places, Players, Play Texts

APPENDIX. Did Richard Hickes Build the Playhouse at Newington Butts?

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3676-0

OCLC:

1143792397