Shakespeare scholar Schoone-Jongen returns to the question of Shakespeare's early theatrical training in his entertaining study. He states at the outset that he has not found a missing contract
proving that Will signed on with one company or another. He does trace the history of the debate and, by showing the impossibility of some theories, narrows down the field. He also examines the
importance of an understanding of the ways in which Elizabethan theater was organized, directed and staffed. This presentation of the milieu in which Shakespeare blossomed tells us as much
about him as is possible at the moment as well as providing a glimpse of other, less well remembered, actors, playwrights and companies. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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