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Zusatztext Munro’s meticulous archival research has allowed her to piece together an often conjectural but fascinating account of the King’s Men … It is as much Munro’s delicious turn of phrase as the detail she excavates from her reading that brings to life these long-forgotten players. Informationen zum Autor Lucy Munro is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at King’s College London, UK. She is the author of Children of the Queen’s Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (2005), Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 (2013) and Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men (2020), and the editor of plays including Fletcher’s The Tamer Tamed and Dekker, Ford and Rowley’s The Witch of Edmonton . Vorwort An introduction to and reappraisal of the King’s Men, the first company to perform and revive some of Shakespeare’s most important plays. Zusammenfassung Created when James I granted royal patronage to the former Chamberlain’s Men in 1603, the King’s Men were the first playing company to exercise a transformative influence on Shakespeare’s plays. Not only did Shakespeare write his plays with them in mind, but they were also the first group to revive his plays, and the first to have them revised, either by Shakespeare himself or by other dramatists after his retirement. Drawing on theatre history, performance studies, cultural history and book history, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men reappraises the company as theatre artists, analysing in detail the performance practices, cultural contexts and political pressures that helped to shape and reshape Shakespeare’s plays between 1603 and 1642. Reconsidering casting and acting styles, staging and playing venues, audience response, influence and popularity, and local, national and international politics, the book presents case-studies of performances of Macbeth , The Tempest , The Winter’s Tale , Richard II , Henry VIII , Othello and Pericles alongside a broader reappraisal of the repertory of the company and the place of Shakespeare’s plays within it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Playing the Court, 1604-5; Chapter 1: Actors and Roles; Interlude: Playing the Court, 1612-13;Chapter 2: Your Dear Delight: Shakespeare and the Merry Devil; Interlude: Playing the Court, 1622-5; Chapter 3: Richard II, Henry VIII and the Politics of Playing;Interlude: Playing the Court, 1633-4;Chapter 4: Othello and The Alchemist at Oxford and Beyond; Interlude: Playing the Court, 1636-7; Chapter 5: Pericles and Playgoing;Coda: Shakespeare and the King’s Men, 1642-1662; Select Bibliography;Notes;Index...
