Renovating the Stage
Companies, Actresses, Repertoire, Theatre Innovations, and the Touring Companies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23429479 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret J M Ezell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Oxford English Literary History : Volume V : 1645-1714 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198183112.003.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W4245276423 |
| ISBN | 9780198183112 |
| Language | EN |
Within three months of Charles II’s return, the London theatres were reopened, with two companies granted royal patents. Thomas Killigrew formed the King’s Company, and William Davenant the Duke’s Company. Initially the repertoire consisted of pre-war plays, with those of Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Fletcher popular. Regular theatre-goer Samuel Pepys recorded his approval of the new actors such as Thomas Betterton, Edward Kynaston, and Charles Hart, and actresses including Nell Gwyn and Elizabeth Barry. The companies invested in new theatres incorporating continental designs for proscenium arches, scenery, and effects at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and Dorset Garden. Dramatists providing new plays included John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, Aphra Behn, William Wycherley, and George Etherege.
Art · Art history · Craft · George (robot) · Literature · Management · Performance art · Repertoire · Style (visual arts) · Visual arts · History · Irish and British Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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