Queen Henrietta's Men and the Cockpit Repertory : Drama on the Drury Lane Stage, 1625-37 (Revels Plays Companion Library)

Collins, Eleanor

Manchester University Press（2026/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780719090868
• DDC分類 792.0941209032

Full Description

This book offers the first extended study of Queen Henrietta's Men, one of Caroline London's most important professional playing companies. The drama that the company performed at the Cockpit between 1626 and 1636 includes many underexplored and neglected plays from the period alongside more celebrated works by dramatists including James Shirley and John Ford, and a number of Elizabethan and Jacobean revivals. This book explores the material and cultural conditions under which the company operated, and offers an account of the dynamics that held between new drama written for the company and the revivals staged alongside that fare. In doing so, this account illuminates the ways in which an appreciation of the work of Queen Henrietta's Men can offer new perspectives on theatre history.

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Material and Cultural Circumstance
1 The Company, the Theatre, and the Dramatists: Christopher Beeston and the formation of Queen Henrietta's Men
2 Queen Henrietta's Men at Court: Performance and Patronage
3 'An ould play revived at their house': Theatrical taste and the cultural status of revivals in Caroline London

Part II: The Repertory in Play
4 Staging the Cockpit Repertory
5 Thomas Heywood's 'Noyse and shows': Reconciling the Red Bull fare
6 James Shirley, Queen's Man

Coda

Appendix A: The Repertory of Queen Henrietta's Men
Appendix B: Evidence for Specific Court Performances Given by Queen Henrietta's Men
Bibliography
Index