[...]... owned the capital of the company, its playbooks and costumes, in common and shared the profits earned All other actors were the employees of the sharers The sharers were not necessarily thefinestactors but they would have to bring a significant contribution to the company in the form either of capital or, as in the case of Shakespeare, writing ability The sharing took place after the rent on the venue—often... topics, which appears at the front of the book (see known as Henry vm appears under its original name of All Is pp xi-xxviii), and offers another means of accessing the ma- True Signpost entries direct the reader from the standard title terial in the Companion It allows the reader to see all the to the entry under the original title The Companion also follows the Oxford entries relating to a particular subject—such... letter-by-letter alphabetical order of their headwords, which are form of a headword does not appear in the text Entries are shown in bold type marked as cross references the first time they appear in an Oxford individual entry only To avoid cluttering the text, the names of Companion to Shakespeare follows the Oxford Shakespeare plays and poems by Shakespeare, and of the characters that (1986), edited... However, there was a distinct 'player' and there were three classes: the sharer, the hired man, and the apprentice The nucleus position of'clown' or 'fool' in each of the major companies and Richard Tarlton of the Queen's of the company was the sharers, typically beMen and William Kempe and later Robert tween four and ten men, who were named on the patent which gave them the authority to Armin of the Chamberlain's... Beckerman thought that the styles and conventional gestures of the Elizabethan orator and actor were essentially the same but found manuals of oratory rather vague: a number of gestures were offered to accompany a particular emotion and the individual orator was left to choose whichever best suited the occasion Another source of information about acting styles is the drama itself, and the most overused... Cambridge Shakespeare Cambridge Shakespeare, New Challis Shakespeare Folger Shakespeare Folio Society Shakespeare Greg, Walter Wilson Halliday, F E Harrison, George Bagshawe Hinman, Charlton Kittredge, G L Mack, Maynard Muir, Kenneth New Shakespeare New Temple Shakespeare New Variorum Nicoll, Allardyce Norton Shakespeare Old-spelling Shakespeare Oxford Shakespeare Pelican Shakespeare Penguin Shakespeare. .. Shakespeare Riverside Shakespeare Signet Shakespeare Sisson, C J strip-cartoon Shakespeare Tudor Shakespeare Wilson, John Dover Yale Shakespeare ^THEATRICAL HISTORY OF T H E PLAYS Shakespeare in the theatre, 1660-1800 Restoration and eighteenthcentury Shakespearian production Stage personnel, 1660-1800 Baddeley, Sophia Barry, Ann Barry, Elizabeth Barry, Spranger Beeston, William Behn, Aphra Betterton,... by spectators and may choose to keep moving so that everyone has a chance to see him The indoor theatres, however, had a greater mass of spectators directly in front of the stage and this probably encouraged playing 'out front' rather than 'in the round' as we would now call it Adjusting between the two modes must have been fairly easy for the actors, however, as on tour they were unlikely to find many... provided the 'in -the- round' experience of the London amphitheatres GE 2 ADVERTISING perform in plays which lacked a 'clown' or 'fool' character The emergence of actor 'stars' in the early 1590s appears to be related to the increasingly long residences at London playhouses which allowed audiences to follow the particular development of an individual's career Star actors could expect to take just one of the. .. in the plays, are not marked as cross references, although to the titles of the plays Shakespeare used when he composed there are entries on all of these NAMES OF PLAYS AND CHARACTERS: The them, rather than the titles that appeared in the First Folio, and T H E M A T I C L I S T I N G O F E N T R I E S : This is a list of entries which have since become standard For example, the play under major topics, . THE OXFORD COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE