Queen Henrietta's Men and the Cockpit Repertory

Drama on the Drury Lane Stage, 1625-37

Eleanor Collins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-9086-8 (ISBN)

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This book offers the first extended study of Queen Henrietta’s Men, one of Caroline London’s most important professional theatre companies. It explores the material and cultural conditions under which the company operated, and the dynamics that held between new drama written for the company and the revivals staged alongside that fare. -- .

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. -- .

Eleanor Collins is Acquisitions Editor in Literature at Oxford University Press, and Co-Ordinating Editor of The Malone Society. -- .

Introduction

Part I: Material and Cultural Circumstance
1 The Company, the Theatre, and the Dramatists: Christopher Beeston and the formation of Queen Henrietta’s Men
2 Queen Henrietta’s Men at Court: Performance and Patronage
3 ‘An ould play revived at their house’: Theatrical taste and the cultural status of revivals in Caroline London

Part II: The Repertory in Play
4 Staging the Cockpit Repertory
5 Thomas Heywood’s ‘Noyse and shows’: Reconciling the Red Bull fare
6 James Shirley, Queen’s Man

Coda

Appendix A: The Repertory of Queen Henrietta’s Men
Appendix B: Evidence for Specific Court Performances Given by Queen Henrietta’s Men
Bibliography
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Revels Plays Companion Library
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7190-9086-5 / 0719090865
ISBN-13	978-0-7190-9086-8 / 9780719090868
Zustand	Neuware