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Shakespeare in Company
Bart van Es
384 pages
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12 black-and-white halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-956931-1
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Hardback
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14 February 2013
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- The only available account of the lives and acting styles of members of Shakespeare's acting company
- Offers combative engagement with existing scholarship, including work in career studies, theatre history, co-authorship, and dramaturgy
- Combines an accessible writing style with a clear overall argument
- Places Shakespeare's plays in their theatrical context, offering unprecedented comparison of the plays with those of his contemporaries
This book is about two very different kinds of company. On the one hand it concerns Shakespeare's poet-playwright contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Jonson, and Fletcher. On the other, it examines the contribution of his fellow actors, including Burbage, Armin, and Kemp. Traditionally, criticism has treated these two influences in separation, so that Shakespeare is considered either in relation to educated Renaissance culture, or as a man of the theatre. Shakespeare in Company unites these perspectives. Bart van Es argues that Shakespeare's decision, in 1594, to become an investor
(or 'sharer') in the newly formed Chamberlain's acting company had a transformative effect on his writing, moving him beyond the conventions of Renaissance dramaturgy. On the basis of the physical distinctiveness of his actors, Shakespeare developed 'relational drama', something no previous dramatist had explored. This book traces the evolution of that innovation, showing how Shakespeare responded to changes in the personnel of his acting fellowship and to competing drama, such as that produced for the children's companies after 1599. Covering over two decades of theatrical history, van Es explores the playwright's career through four distinct phases, ending on the conditions that shaped Shakespeare's late style. Paradoxically, Shakespeare emerges as a playwright unique 'in
company'—special, in part, because of the unparalleled working conditions that he enjoyed.Readership: Students and scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature; general readers of Shakespeare.
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Bart van Es, Fellow and University Lecturer, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford Bart van Es is Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. He has previously written books on Edmund Spenser and has a special interest in the writing of history in the Renaissance. Shakespeare in Company is his first work on drama and was supported by the award of an AHRC Fellowship.
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"[An] absorbing study" - The New Criterion "Shakespeare in Company is a meticulous account of the institutional and economic forces that shaped the plays themselves and an acute analysis of the ways in which this shaping occurred ... This is a sensitive, erudite and intriguing study that demonstrates the inseparability of the rarefied perfections of Shakespeare's art and the day-to-day business of the entertainment industry." - Peter J. Smith, Times Higher Education
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Prologue: Shakespeare's Early Life and the Origins of Commercial Theatre (1576-1592)
Phase I: Shakespeare as Conventional Poet-Playwright (1592-1594)
1: Imitation and Identity
2: The Working Conditions of the Playwright
3: Shakespeare as Literary Playwright
Phase II: Shakespeare as Company Man (1594-1599)
4: Control over Casting
5: The Events of 1594
6: Relational Drama
7: Shakespeare's Singularity
Phase III: Shakespeare as Playhouse Investor (1599-1608)
8: The Globe Partnership
9: Robert Armin
10: The Children's Companies
11: Richard Burbage
Phase IV: Shakespeare in the Company of Playwrights Again (1608-1614)
12: The Events of 1608
13: Shakespeare's Late Style
14: Shakespeare and Co-Authorship
Conclusion
Appendix
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