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The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642

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ISBN-13: 978-0521807302
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  • Hardcover: 356 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press (May 24, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521807301
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521807302
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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4.0 out of 5 starsValuable insights on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, dragged by quibbles
By Vince Emery on May 20, 2013
Format: Hardcover
James Boswell's biography The Life of Samuel Johnson famously quotes Dr. Johnson as saying "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." That might not be true for all writers at all times, but money was certainly the main reason William Shakespeare wrote plays. He also acted in plays, and after he became a founding shareholder of the most successful theatrical company of his time, Shakespeare grew rich. The theater was his business.

This book provides the first complete history of the theatrical company that made Shakespeare wealthy and shaped Renaissance drama. It was named after its patrons: first called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, it eventually rose to the patronage of the King himself, who renamed it the King's Men.

Author Andrew Gurr begins in May 1594, when the Lord Chamberlain decided to earn favor from Queen Elizabeth by sponsoring a company to create and perform plays to entertain her. At the same time, his son-in-law, the Lord Admiral, sponsored a second company for the same purpose. The two companies went on to establish theatrical dominance so effectively that Gurr calls them "a duopoly."

As an actor of his time Shakespeare could expect little money, and as a playwright not much more. Playwrights sold plays outright to theatrical companies for a fixed price and received no further income from their works. But in 1594 Shakespeare become one of eight founding shareholders of the Chamberlain's Men. Shareholders could earn a lot, and his fellow shareholders became some of the most important people in his life. Even better, in 1599 Shakespeare paid a hundred pounds (a large sum at the time) to become one of seven owners of the new Globe theater, and eventually part owner of the even more lucrative indoor Blackfriars Playhouse.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA very detailed, commercial history of Shakespeare's theater partners, heirs, and him
By Peter Jensen on March 15, 2015
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Prepare to read this book slowly for tons of new information about Shakespeare as actor, writer, director, businessman, property buyer, and theater owner. This book gave me lots of details about the commercial theater side of Shakespeare's life in London. I have always thought that the lives of other players and playwrights and entitled or royal patrons would shed a lot of light on their friend, partner, rival, servant, and invaluable colleague, William Shakespeare. And Gurr proves that in meticulous details. I must admit, as a Shakespeare nerd, that once Will dies in 1616, my interest meter goes down a bit, but Gurr provides even better details for what happened to Will's company after his death up to the Puritan closure of the theaters in 1647 and beyond into the restoration after 1660. Unlike many others, Will had an after-life in the theater, and Gurr shows how the Puritan Republic led to great losses, despite the great Puritan Secretary of State and one of his biggest fans, John Milton, who wrote an introductory sonnet for the second edition of the 1632 Second Folio of Will's plays. Then Shakespeare's godson Will Davenant, John Dryden, Samuel Pepys, Betterton the theater owner and actor, Alexander Pope, and King Charles II begin to build up the Shakespeare phenomena we enjoy today.
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