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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Syme, Holger Schott

Titel

The Jacobean King’s Men: A Reconsideration

Ist Teil von

• The Review of English studies, 2019-04, Vol.70 (294), p.231-251

Ort / Verlag

Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract This essay reassesses the history of the King’s Men from 1603 to 1619, in light of new evidence from a 1607 ‘fee list’ discovered in the Beinecke Library and drawing on recently published work on the company’s boy players. It argues that the King’s Men experienced a personnel crisis just as James I became their new patron and responded by developing strategies that would continue to shape the company’s development for decades. The King’s Men not only adopted a policy of training up apprentices to become sharers, but also used the company's status to poach leading players from other troupes. Finally, the essay makes a case for taking Tudor and Stuart ‘fee lists’ seriously as theatre-historical evidence and argues that players patronized by the monarch may have received an annual set income not just under the early Tudor kings, but under Elizabeth I and James I as well.