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Playhouse law in Shakespeare's world

Title: Playhouse law in Shakespeare's world / Brian Jay Corrigan.
Author: Corrigan, Brian Jay, 1957-
Publication: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2004.

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Description

263 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"There is a human face to Shakespeare's theatrical world. It has been captured and preserved in the amber of litigious activity. Contracts for playhouses represent human aspiration: an avaricious hope for profit or an altruistic desire to provide for a family. Lawsuits have preserved the declarations of rights and the righteous indignations as well as the fictions and half-truths under which the Renaissance theater flourished. Leases and agreements preserve the intentions, honest or dishonest, of the men who wrote, performed, and bankrolled the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The period 1590-1623, the limits of the original Shakespearean enterprise, resemble nothing so much as a third of a century of the sort of squabbling, shoving, and place-seeking familiar to every modern theatrical professional." "Playhouse Law in Shakespeare's World demonstrates how the law functioned for, against, and within the early modern drama. The Inns of Court, for example, played an important if not pivotal role in London's emerging theater industry. From the choice of playhouse location to furnishing attendees, aficionados, and even playwrights for the popular theater, the Inns of Court were crucial to the establishment and development of the traditions that produced Shakespeare and his contemporaries. This book traces that development from the early fifteenth century through the Caroline period."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-255) and index.

Contents

'A must, then, to the Inns o' court shortly -- Tricks and quillets that thunder at a playhouse -- Thy love's use their treasure -- I knew a wench married in an afternoon : secret marriages per verba de præsenti and per verba de futuro.

ISBN

0838640222
9780838640227

LCCN

2003023958
99808205557

OCLC

ocm53374807
53374807
SCSB-1335821

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library