{"product_id":"acting-companies-and-their-plays-in-shakespeares-london-9781408146675","title":"Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare's London","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Siobhan Keenan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eActing Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSiobhan Keenan's analysis includes chapters on the traditions and workings of contemporary acting companies, playwriting practices, stages and staging, audiences and patrons, each illustrated with detailed case studies of individual acting companies and their plays, including troupes such as Lady Elizabeth's players, 'Beeston's Boys' and the King's Men and works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Brome and Heywood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We are accustomed to focusing on individual playwrights: \u003ci\u003eActing Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case that we also need to think about the companies for which dramatists wrote and with whose members they collaborated, if we wish to better understand the dramas of the English Renaissance stage.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45081957040279,"sku":"9781408146675","price":16469.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781408146675.webp?v=1767142468","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/acting-companies-and-their-plays-in-shakespeares-london-9781408146675","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}