Playhouse wills

1558-1642
Herausgeber: Brock, Susan; Honigmann, E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now available in paperback, this edition constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over one hundred wills left by those who participate in the life of the theatre à â â from actors and dramatists to carpenters and costumiers. -- .

Produktdetails

• Revels Plays Companion Library
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780719030178
• ISBN-10: 071903017X
• Artikelnr.: 42363025

Autorenporträt

E.A.J. Honigmann was Joseph Cowen Professor of English at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Susan Brock is Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Social history 1. The theatrical community 2. Wealth and
finance 3. The personal voice Testamentary procedure 4. Wills and the law
5. The making of the will 6. The form of the will 7. Probate List of
testators by date of will or administration List of testators by occupation
Documents 8. Wills 9. Some administrations of interest 10. Inventories
Appendices 1. Acting companies to 1642 2. Printed indexes to wills Index of
persons