Theatre History, Attribution Studies, and the Question of Evidence

"This Element offers an in-depth reinterpretation of Philip Henslowe's records of new plays, develops a novel account of how theatre companies copied and adapted plays in one another's repertories, and reconstructs an early modern cluster of Hieronimo plays that also allows us to reimagine Ben Jonson's career as an actor"--

List of contents

Introduction: Attribution Studies and Theatre Historical Evidence; 1. Ne Problem; 2. Repertorial Clusters; 3. The Hieronimo Complex; 4. Ben Jonson's Hieronimo; 5. The Spanish Tragedy Rehomed; Epilogue: Productive Error.

Summary

This Element offers an in-depth reinterpretation of Philip Henslowe's records of new plays, develops a novel account of how theatre companies copied and adapted plays in one another's repertories, and reconstructs an early modern cluster of Hieronimo plays that also allows us to reimagine Ben Jonson's career as an actor.

Foreword

Early modern acting companies regularly adapted plays from rival companies. Shakespeare did such work; Ben Jonson acted in such adaptations.

Product details

• Authors: Holger Schott Syme, Holger Schott (University of Toronto ) Syme, Syme Holger Schott
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781009227414
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0922741-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Shakespeare and Text
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, European history: Renaissance, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, c 1492 to c 1808 (Spanish Early Modern period), Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean