The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608: Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks,...

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Jeanne McCarthy

The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608

Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-boys

Jeanne McCarthy

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Routledge
24 January 2017

The Arts: General & Reference; Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literature: history & criticism

Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

The Children’s Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509–1608 uncovers the role of the children’s companies in transforming perceptions of authorship and publishing, performance, playing spaces, patronage, actor training, and gender politics in the sixteenth century.

Jeanne McCarthy challenges entrenched narratives about popular playing in an era of revolutionary changes, revealing the importance of the children’s company tradition’s connection with many early plays, as well as to the spread of literacy, classicism, and literate ideals of drama, plot, textual fidelity, characterization, and acting in a still largely oral popular culture. By addressing developments from the hyper-literate school tradition, and integrating discussion of the children’s troupes into the critical conversation around popular playing practices, McCarthy offers a nuanced account of the play-centered, literary performance tradition that came to define professional theater in this period.

Highlighting the significant role of the children’s company tradition in sixteenth-century performance culture, this volume offers a bold new narrative of the emergence of the London theater.

By: Jeanne McCarthy
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9781472487797
ISBN 10: 1472487796
Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 24 January 2017
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeanne H. McCarthy is Associate Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. She has published extensively on patronage, authorship, and performance in the boy company playing tradition.

Reviews for The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608: Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-boys

McCarthy's study remains an important intervention in the scholarship on early modern children's performance, offering a series of insights into sixteenth century theatrical practice, a number of new avenues for future scholarship, and an insight into the 'rich conjunction of oral and literate modes' on which theatre depended. - Lucy Munro, King's College London, Early Theatre