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Article: The Queen's Men and Their Plays.
- Article from:
- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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The Queen's Men and Their Plays. By Scott McMillin and Sally-Beth MacLean.
Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998.
xvii +253 pp. [pound]40;$59.95.
The Queen's Men and Their Plays is the first book entirely dedicated to a specific playing company of the Elizabethan age. The result is striking. The company's history is analysed in detail from its formation in 1583 until its decline at the beginning of the seventeenth century, as is the body of extant texts ascribed to the company. The concluding chapter centres on the anti-Marlowe vein characterizing most extant plays of the Queen's Men's repertory, and favours the hypothesis that ...