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Shakespeare and the Admiral's Men: Reading Across Repertories on the London Stage, 1594-1600

Shakespeare and the Admiral's Men: Reading Across Repertories on the London Stage, 1594-1600

Rutter, Tom

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ISBN10: 1107077435
ISBN13: 9781107077430
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jan 16 2017
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
For most of the 1590s, the Admiral's Men were the main competitors of Shakespeare's company in the London theatres. Not only did they stage old plays by dramatists such as Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd: their playwrights invented the genres of humours comedy (with An Humorous Day's Mirth) and city comedy (with Englishmen for My Money), while other new plays such as A Knack to Know an Honest Man and The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon were important influences on Shakespeare. This is the first book to read the Admiral's repertory against Shakespeare's plays of the 1590s, showing both how Shakespeare drew on their innovations and how his plays influenced Admiral's dramatists in turn. Shedding new light on well-known plays and offering detailed analysis of less familiar ones, it offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic culture of the 1590s.

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