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Autore: | Wooding Barbara |
Titolo: | John Lowin and the English theatre, 1603-1647 : acting and cultural politics on the Jacobean and Caroline stage / / Barbara Wooding |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina: | 792.02/32092 |
Soggetto topico: | Actors - Great Britain |
Theatrical managers - Great Britain | |
Note generali: | "First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations for Frequently-Cited Works; Spelling Conventions; Introduction; 1 From Cripplegate to Bankside; 2 Pamphlets, Plays, Pageants and 'Prentices; 3 'Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang'; 4 Parish and Playhouse; 5 'We now touch the height of humane glorie'; 6 'A Protean actor varijnge everie shape with the occasion'; 7 Theatre, Citizens and Court; 8 The Soddered Citizen: An Investigation; 9 John Lowin: An Actor for All Seasons; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | In the first full-length study devoted to John Lowin, Wooding provides a comprehensive overview of the life and times of one of the greatest actors of seventeenth-century England. She examines his involvement in the Jacobean/Caroline world as citizen, performer, and manager of King's Men's Company, and contextualizes his life and career within the socio-economic and political framework of the period. |
Titolo autorizzato: | John Lowin and the English theatre, 1603-1647 |
ISBN: | 1-4724-0687-7 |
1-317-11064-1 | |
1-315-59056-5 | |
1-4094-5268-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910786951503321 |
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