Shakespeare's professional career

Shakespeare's professional career /

Shakespeare was a supremely successful accommodator. The story of his career as actor and playwright, which this book tells, shows the accommodation of his remarkable talents to the circumstances of his time: the social, political and professional life of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. It describ...

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Main Author: Thomson, Peter, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Literary patrons.
Dramatists, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Biography.
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Authors and patrons > England > History > 16th century.
Theater > England > History > 16th century.
Actors > Great Britain > Biography.
Literary patrons > Great Britain.
Actors and actresses > England > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Shakespeare and Stratford
  • Establishing a career: of patrons and provinces
  • Establishing a career: London 1590
  • A playtext and its context
  • Servant to the Lord Chamberlain: 1594-1603
  • Of queen, Chamberlains, admiral and king
  • Servant to the King: 1603-1616.

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