Playhouse wills, 1558-1642 : an edition of wills by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the London theatre
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Playhouse wills, 1558-1642 : an edition of wills by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the London theatre
(The Revels plays companion library / E.A.J. Honigmann ... [et al.], general editors)
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993
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Bibliography: p. xiv-xvi
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This anthology constitutes a new archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over 100 wills left by those who participated in the life of the Elizabethan theatre - from actors and dramatists to carpenters and costumiers. The wills not only offer vital historical evidence but are also important human documents, testaments to the social, financial, religious and sentimental lives of Shakespeare's contemporaries. Of the wills reprinted here, one third are newly discovered, one fifth printed in full for the first time and many of the rest printed for the first time from the original wills, thus preserving the vacillations and abandoned intentions of the testators. All are annotated and referenced throughout.
Table of Contents
- Conventions and abbreviations
- introduction - social history, testamentary procedure, conclusion
- list of testators chronologically by date of will
- list of testators by occupation - actors/managers, boy's company managers, dramatists, musicians, theatre owners/investors, masters of the revels, miscellaneous
- documents - wills, administrations
- inventories. Appendices: acting companies, printed indexes to wills.
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