Roaring Boys by Judith Cook

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Title: Roaring Boys by Judith Cook. Playwrights and Player in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Summary: Roaring Boys: Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England is a history of the people who created and performed English theatre during the late 1500s and early 1600s. Cook focuses not only on Shakespeare but also on writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Robert Greene, and other playwrights and actors. 
The book begins around 1578, when purpose-built theatres began to appear in London, and follows the development of professional theatre to about 1620. Cook describes London as a lively but dangerous place, particularly areas such as Bankside and Shoreditch, where theatres, taverns, gambling houses and prisons existed alongside one another. 
The "roaring boys" were ambitious young writers and performers who often lived exciting and sometimes reckless lives. They drank, fought, had relationships, competed with one another and sought fame and money. At the same time, they produced some of the most important drama and poetry of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. 
A major theme is the growth of professional theatre. Actors had previously been viewed suspiciously as vagabonds, but the increasing popularity of theatre and the patronage of wealthy nobles helped professional acting companies become established. Cook shows how playwrights, actors, theatre managers and audiences all contributed to this transformation.
Author: Judith Cook
Publisher: Sutton Publishing. Stroud, Gloucestershire
Year Published: 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780750933681
Dimensions: 24cm x 16cm 
Notes: 
SKU: VSS / 273 / G / 7686 / 6055
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Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Handling marks
Book condition: Very good. Handling marks, marks, toning 
Binding: Intact
Pages: 212 pages
 
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