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Queen Henrietta's Men and the Cockpit Repertory
Drama on the Drury Lane Stage, 1626–36
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Eleanor Collins
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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.
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eBook ISBN:
9781526107756
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eBook ISBN:
9781526107756
Keywords for this book
Caroline drama; Christopher Beeston; Cockpit Theatre; Early modern theatre history; James Shirley; Phoenix Theatre; Repertory studies; Thomas Heywood
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
