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11 - Players and the Playing Business

from Part II - Theater

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Jerzy Limon
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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English theater historyoriginsorganizationpatronagerepertorysixteenth centuryseventeenth centurystagingstrolling companiestraveling players
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 83 - 88
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1923.Google Scholar
Cohn, Albert. Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and the Seventeenth Centuries: An Account of English Actors in Germany and the Netherlands and of the Plays Performed by Them During the Same Period. London: Asher, 1865.Google Scholar
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Further reading

Adams, Graham C. The Ottoneum: A Neglected Seventeenth-Century Theater. New York: AMS Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Collier, J. P. Memoires of the Principle Actors in the Playes of Shakespeare. 8 vols. London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1846.Google Scholar
Haekel, Ralf. Die Englische Komödianten in Deutschland: eine Einführung in die Ursprünge des deutschen Berufsschauspiels. Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte 212. Heidelberg: Winter, 2004.Google Scholar
Harris, Ch. “The English Comedians in Germany before the Thirty Years’ War: The Financial Side.” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 22 (1907): 446–64.Google Scholar
Herz, Emil. Englische Schauspieler and englisches Schauspiel zur Zeit Shakespeares in Deutschland. Hamburg: Leopold Voss, 1903.Google Scholar
Katrizky, Peg. “Pickleherring and Hamlet in Dutch Art: The English Comedians of Robert Browne, John Green, and Robert Reynolds.” Shakespeare Yearbook 15 (2005): 113–40.Google Scholar
Limon, Jerzy. Gentlemen of a Company: English Players in Central and Eastern Europe, 1590–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Schrickx, Willem. “English Actors’ Names in German Archives and Elizabethan Theatre History.” Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft 118 (1982): 146–57.Google Scholar

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