Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Bentley, Gerald Eades

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691062056 ISBN 13: 9780691062051

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1972

Synopsis

Gerald Eades Bentley assembles and analyzes the extant theatrical materials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His discussion of the working conditions of professional dramatists like Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher, and Philip Massinger as well as William Shakespeare rounds out the fascinating picture of the professionalism that developed in the great days of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre.

Originally published in 1972.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0691062056
• ISBN 13: 9780691062051
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 676