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Child Actors on the London Stage, circa 1600: Their Education, Recruitment and Theatrical Success
Julie Ackroyd
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JB; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
A legal document dated 1600, for a Star Chamber case titled Clifton versus Robinson, details how boys were abducted from London streets and forcibly held in order to train them as actors for the Blackfriars theatre. No adults were seen on-stage in this theatre, which was stocked solely by acting boys, resulting in a satirical and scurrilous method of play presentation. Were the boys specifically targeted for skills they may have possessed which would have been applicable to this type of play presentation? And, was this method of recruitment typical or atypical of Elizabethan theatre? Analysis of the background of ... Read more
A legal document dated 1600, for a Star Chamber case titled Clifton versus Robinson, details how boys were abducted from London streets and forcibly held in order to train them as actors for the Blackfriars theatre. No adults were seen on-stage in this theatre, which was stocked solely by acting boys, resulting in a satirical and scurrilous method of play presentation. Were the boys specifically targeted for skills they may have possessed which would have been applicable to this type of play presentation? And, was this method of recruitment typical or atypical of Elizabethan theatre? Analysis of the background of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198480
SKU
V9781845198480
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Ref
99-50
About Julie Ackroyd
Julie Ackroyd is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Honorary Associate of the Classics Department. She has also worked as an Assistant Producer with the BBC, and as a script reader for Alan Ayckbourn's Stephen Joseph Theatre and the RSC as well as a judge for the Society of London Theatres Olivier Awards.
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