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Children of the Queen's Revels

Children of the Queen's Revels

Children of the Queen's Revels

A Jacobean Theatre Repertory
Lucy Munro, Keele University
July 2011
Paperback
9781107402492

    This book provides a detailed 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 groundbreaking 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.

    • Was the first book-length study of the Children of the Queen's Revels
    • Combines documentary history and critical analysis
    • Provides a perspective on the work of major dramatists including Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton

    Product details

    July 2011
    Paperback
    9781107402492
    282 pages
    229 × 152 × 16 mm
    0.42kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. Raiding the nest: the children of the Queen's Revels and their plays
    • 2. 'Proper Gallants Words': comedy and the theatre audience
    • 3. 'Grief and Joy so Suddenly Commixt': company politics and the development of tragicomedy
    • 4. 'Ieronimo in Decimosexto': tragedy and the text
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix A. The repertory (summary)
    • Appendix B. The Repertory (data and analysis)
    • Appendix C. Biographical summary
    • Appendix D. Actor lists
    • Appendix E. Court and touring performances.
      Author
    • Lucy Munro , King's College London

      Lucy Munro is a lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Studies at King's College London. Her research focuses on the performance and reception of Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline drama, on editing, book history and textual scholarship, on literary style and genre, and on dramatic representations of childhood and ageing. She is the author of Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674 (Cambridge, 2013), and editor of Edward Sharpham's The Fleer (2006), Shakespeare and George Wilkins' Pericles, in William Shakespeare: Complete Works (ed. Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, 2007), Richard Brome's The Queen and Concubine and The Demoiselle, in Richard Brome Online (gen. ed. Richard Allen Cave, 2009), and John Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed (2010). Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Huntington Library Quarterly, Modern Philology, Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare and Ageing and Society, and in collections such as The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre (ed. Richard Dutton, 2009), Performing Early Modern Drama Today (ed. Kathryn Prince and Pascale Aebischer, Cambridge, 2012) and The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England (ed. Andy Kesson and Emma Smith, 2013). Her stage history of The Alchemist appears in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, electronic edition (gen. ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler and Ian Donaldson, Cambridge, 2014).