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Original Title:	Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story ISBN13 9780141912233
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Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story

Stanley Wells

Kindle Edition | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 338 Users | 40 Reviews

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Title	:	Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Author	:	Stanley Wells
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	December 5th 2013 by Penguin (first published August 3rd 2006)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Biography. Literature. Drama. Plays. Theatre. Historical

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'Enjoyable, lively . such a pleasure to read . renders the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries more than fringe entertainment' Independent

Shakespeare is one of the greatest of all English figures, considered a genius for all time. Yet as this enthralling book shows, he was at heart a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance London - from the enigmatic spy Christopher Marlowe to the self-aggrandizing Ben Jonson, from the actor Richard Burbage to the brilliant Thomas Middleton. By bringing Shakespeare's contemporaries to life, Shakespeare & Co throws fresh new light on the man himself.

'Warm, cheerful, generous . Wells sketches a whole gallery of Shakespeare's fellow playwrights . He brings each vividly to life, making you feel that you've met them personally in some Blackfriars tavern' Simon Callow

'It was a time and place teeming with excitement, anecdote and incident, and Wells, in this richly enjoyable work, brings it to life with a novelist's sense of the telling detail' Dominic Dromgoole

'Enthralling' Observer

'This is one of the most sane and exciting books on Shakespeare I have read for a long time' Scotland on Sunday

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Truly enjoy this discussion of the active playwrights of Shakespeare's period. Covers a bit of the biographies of others, and how they were borrowing plot, play structures and topics from one another. Also discusses the possible collaborations between Shakespeare and other playwrights. Gave me a much better sense of the "theater scene" from about 1590 to 1620 or so. Definitely a book of details, and I enjoyed reading some passages from other writers' plays.

There are some good tidbits in here that I wasnt aware of previously (like the impressment of boys into theatrical service against their will). The main advantages of this book, though, are the mini-biographies of Marlowe, Dekker, Johnson, Middleton, and Fletcher. Biographies of Shakespeare tend to touch lightly on these (and other) colleagues, so its good to get a little more here. Theres a lot on these pages about the layers of authorship within individual plays, and while the Arden (and

The monolith that is Shakespeare bestrides his narrow world like a Colossus, but the truth is that Shakespeare worked and, indeed, collaborated with a number of talented playwrights who wrote impressive plays that should be recognized. Although Marlowe and Jonson's stories are fairly well known, this book excels especially when telling the lesser known stories of Dekker, Middleton, Fletcher and Beaumont, and Webster. If you would like to know more about those other playwrights, but especially

Some bits I knew already - this is a very good general introduction for the non-specialist.

This book is primarily intended for a generalist rather than a specialist audience. In both content and style, it's best suited to someone who knows the plays but wants to know more about the context within which they were written and performed. Theatre is an inherently collaborative project, and this book usefully reminds readers of how inseparable Shakespeare is from the Elizabethan theatre world. It's a good reminder, too, if any is needed, of how dopey the idea that someone else secretly

Super fun and gossipy, and I totally want to read some Marlowe and Webster now.

An inquiry into Shakespeare's ContemporariesI didn't think I would read another book about Shakespeare. However it gave me insight into Shakespeare's collaborators , actors and his literary heirs.. I have a greater respect for these colleagues who contributed to Shakespeare's plays.