Joint Enterprises

by Heather Hirschfeld

Overview

Over half the plays of the English Renaissance were scripted by more than one dramatist, says Hirschfield (English, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville). She analyzes the institutional framework that undergirded such joint composition, and the interpersonal dynamics that characterized it, notably within the context of the professionalism and commercial success of theater in the late 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558494343
Publisher:	University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date:	02/18/2004
Series:	Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1640L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction: Cases of Collaborative Production	1
Chapter 1	Scenes of Collaborative Production	16
Chapter 2	"Work upon that now" Collaborative Labor and Loss in the Hoe Plays	29
Chapter 3	Beaumont, Fletcher, and Shakespeare: Collaborative Drama, the Stuart Masque, and the Politics of Identification	52
Chapter 4	The Changeling and the Perversion of Fellowship	89
Chapter 5	The Late Lancashire Witches and Joint Work across Generations	118
	Conclusion: Companies in Collaboration	145
	Notes	155
	Selected Bibliography	177
	Index	197

Editorial Reviews

The extent of professionalization and piece work if not assembly-line manufacture in the commercial drama of Shakespeare's age is well indicated by Heather Anne Hirschfeld in the admirably original and important study she calls Joint Enterprises.

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