Adult Playing Companies 1583–1593

MacLean, Sally-Beth

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“…MacLean, most recently in 2009, has suggested that 'The anticipation of Jewell's share in money to come from Lady Pembroke implies either that the company may have been commissioned to perform at one of her family residences or that they had earned her special approval'. 68 Her suggestion would be reinforced by my argument that the performance at Mary's residence had already taken place in the midsummer of 1592, just before Jewell completed his will. My claim largely coincides with an inference made by Karl P. Wentersdorf more than thirty years ago.…”

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The Will of Simon Jewell and the Queen’s Men Tours in 1592

Hanabusa

2013

Early Theatre

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The will of Simon Jewell, a player of the Queen's Men who died in August 1592, was first discovered in 1974. The will, filled with information about the company's finances, has since been recognized as an invaluable source of evidence documenting useful details of the financial costs of an Elizabethan theatrical company. Despite its value as a historical document, however, the will has so far received somewhat cursory attention. This essay discusses this invaluable historical document with more careful attention to its details. It focuses on the company's costs and the actor's personal network in and outside the company, and investigates an implied local performance of the Queen's Men tours in the summer of 1592 in order to clarify its significance for theatre history.

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The Will of Simon Jewell and the Queen’s Men Tours in 1592

Hanabusa

2013

Early Theatre

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Charting the Landscape of Loss

2021

Shakespeare and Lost Plays

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Why does a company's repertorial context matter? Because Shakespeare's plays were performed alongside the plays (lost and extant) in the commercial companies' repertories and because Shakespeare was writing his own plays to fit within that repertory context. Some of these must also have been the plays in which Shakespeare, as an actor, was performing. The diary of Philip Henslowe, theatrical impresario and manager of the Rose and Fortune playhouses, is indispensable as a source of relevant historical information on the repertories in London. Henslowe's theatrical accounts pertain to performances by multiple companies between -,  and his expenditure on behalf of the Admiral's and the Earl of Worcester's Men between -. The data about performances, takings, inventory lists and expenditure on costumes and playbooks is the most detailed account of company commerce from the period. In this chapter, I consider the finances of the Admiral's, Strange's and Sussex's Men as preserved in Henslowe's diary, with a view to comparing lost and extant plays in terms of the highest number of performances, the highest average takings and the single most profitable performances. If there is any truth to the suggestion made by older generations of scholars that lost plays were mere filler and that their failure to appear in print is an index of their perceived quality, I would expect to see such valuations reflected in the three financial measures I explore, but the results do not support such a conclusion. Instead, one of the key claims I make is that lost plays performed significantly better (financially) and were of greater value to a commercial company than scholars have traditionally acknowledged.Unfortunately, Henslowe only documents the plays of Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, for a brief period of eleven days in June  (see Chapter ). To appreciate the nature and extent of loss in  I.e. the Queen's Men, the Lord Strange's Men, the Earl of Sussex's Men, the Lord Admiral's Men, the Earl of Pembroke's Men and even the Lord Chamberlain's Men for a brief period in .

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Adult Playing Companies 1583–1593

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The Will of Simon Jewell and the Queen’s Men Tours in 1592

The Will of Simon Jewell and the Queen’s Men Tours in 1592

Charting the Landscape of Loss

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