- Description
- 90 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "This Element offers an in-depth reinterpretation of Philip Henslowe's records of new plays, develops a novel account of how theatre companies copied and adapted plays in one another's repertories, and reconstructs an early modern cluster of Hieronimo plays that also allows us to reimagine Ben Jonson's career as an actor"--
- Over the past decode, attribution scholars have come to a consensus that Shakespeare wrote some of the additions printed in the 1602 quarto of Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. This new development in textual studies has far-reaching consequences for established theatre-historical narratives. Accounting for Shakespeare's involvement in The Spanish Tragedy requires us to rethink the history of two major theatre companies, the Admiral's and the Chamberlain's Men, and to reread much of the documentary record of late Elizabethan theatre. Modelling what a theatre-historical response to new attributionist arguments might look like, the author offers an in-depth reinterpretation of Philip Henslowe's records of new plays, develops a novel account of how theatre companies copied and adapted plays in one another's repertories (including a reconsideration of the "Ur-Hamlet" and the two Shrew plays), and reconstructs an early modern cluster of Hieronimo plays that also allows us to reimagine Ben Jonson's career as an actor--back cover.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare and text
- Alternative Title
- Theater history, attribution studies, and the question of evidence
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: Attribution studies and threatre-historical evidence -- 1. Ne problem -- 2. Repertorial clusters -- 3. The Hieronimo complex -- 4. Ben Johnson's Hieronimo -- 5. The Spanish tragedy rehomed -- Epilogue: Productive error.
- ISBN
- 9781009227414
- 1009227416
- 9781009227391 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023013648
- OCLC
- YBP 2023013648
- Author
Syme, Holger Schott, author.
- Title
Theatre history, attribution studies, and the question of evidence / Holger Schott Syme.
- Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
©2023
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare and text
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
1500-1600
- Other Form:
Online version: Syme, Holger Schott. Theatre history, attribution studies, and the question of evidence Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023 9781009227391 (DLC) 2023013649