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The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 / Gerald Eades Bentley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 703Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1984Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (332 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691612669
  • 9781400853267
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.0280942
LOC classification:
  • PN2589 -- B46 1984eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- II. The Player and His Company -- III. Sharers -- IV. Hired Men -- V. Apprentices -- VI. Managers -- VII. London Companies on Tour -- VIII. Casting -- IX. Conclusions -- Appendix: Casts and Lists of Players -- Index
Summary: This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular theaters of England. Gerald Bentley discusses sharers, hired men, boy apprentices, musicians, touring groups, and managers, showing that players in general led difficult but seriously professional lives.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- II. The Player and His Company -- III. Sharers -- IV. Hired Men -- V. Apprentices -- VI. Managers -- VII. London Companies on Tour -- VIII. Casting -- IX. Conclusions -- Appendix: Casts and Lists of Players -- Index

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This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular theaters of England. Gerald Bentley discusses sharers, hired men, boy apprentices, musicians, touring groups, and managers, showing that players in general led difficult but seriously professional lives.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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